I knew the Canadians were good for something......

[gulliver]

nothing wrong with it at all, unless you sail it full steam ahead at the expense of logic, truth, things rational etc. Partisan Poli tics, the phrase, has become to be used as a negative like for example: pigsteak by saying "alan draped in a patriotic flag....hell must've frozen" is enjoying a moment of pure Partisan Poli tics. The implication being that as someone from the left he is obviously anti-american and must be resisted. Of course both alan and pigsteak each know better than this and it is merely an atempt to 'push someone's buttons'. The big and deadly fear in all of this and it keeps many of us up at night , is that some idiot will be taken in by the other sides game and thus vote for the enemy in the face of all things just and holy.

[merrick]

in this context they are using the work Partisan as "devoted to a cause or party." so in this conversation a partisan agenda is one that would benefit the Republican or Democratic party.

There are a number of reasons it is given a negative spin, including the fact that the issue being pushed might help a party at the expense of the general populace. Another negative aspect is that issues can be pushed to extreme perspectives and creat polarization. so rather than working on a good compromise that focuses on a centrist posistion both partys will take an extreme position to oppose each other. this makes any bill that is passed less enforceable, and less representative of the average citizen.

Does that make sense?

[ynot]

bingo

[OB Juan]

Eloquently put merrick, I like to sum up partisanship as "multi-lateral rectal cranial inversion".