Uzzy,
I just read this article about 20-minutes before your post. This is one of the TOP reasons why our country is in the shape it is today, bipartisanship . Our government is way too focused on Republican versus Democrat, conservative versus liberal, right versus left. They need to focus on doing what's best for this country instead of trying to prove the other side wrong and making the other side look bad because it adds to their already over inflated egos! As an educator, it's hard to teach my students to become more mature and more "adult-like" when most adults are bigger children and more immature than children.
I will step down from my soap box now.