Politicians are always talking about bipartisanship.  They want all their bills to look like there has been a meeting of the minds from all side, even both sides of the aisle.  They have discussed the strengths and weaknesses of proposals.  Then after considerable thought and deliberation, they have drawn conclusions and reached the best solution.  Last week we saw the meaning of Democrats Bipartisanship.  All in crisis mode and in the middle of the night Democrats crafted their recovery plan. They declared that they had reached across the aisle in the House, considered and accepted Republican proposals in committee, all of which were dropped from the final legislation presented on the floor.  But they could boast about "bipartisanship". Then on to the Senate. In the Senate they didn't have enough votes to pass their pork laden bill without bipartisanship.  So they were forced to reach across the aisle again. This time when they reached across the aisle, they handed earmarks to some Republicans.  Oh, I'm sorry they were not earmarks; Obama won't allow those in legislation.  They were amendments. So after bribing Sen. Specter with the opportunity to add about $10B to his pet interests, Democrats again reached across the aisle and in a bipartisan manner, yanked three RINOs across the aisle to vote for bill. Of course it has to go to conference committee where there were questions about how they might reconcile the pork laden versions in the House and Senate.  There was speculation that combined the bill would grow even fatter.  Wisely the Democrats reduced the bill to a more palatable amount.  But then was is that difficult to trim a little fat so that you can say, "See we are conservative, we didn't let this bill get out of hand."

So Democrats Bipartisanship is reaching a hand across the aisle with enough trinkets to bribe a just enough RINOs and then yank them back across the aisle to quickly vote for the legislation.