Of course you're allowed to be partisan. But does that really make for a better country? When people in our government are "partisan" it just means they won't get along. The last two years is living proof of that. The Dems are too left, the GOP is too right.

The word "bipartisan" is often a postive thing. Clinton and the republicans of the nineties were, but it's not looking that way now. I wouldn't have such an issue with President Obama if he simply took the initiative (like supporting the Simpson-Bowles plan!!!) to try and work with the other side. But to do this, he has to concede just as the right has to concede. It's about compromise.