Under Obama, DC Is More Divided Than Ever

Brown & Allen, PoliticoCandidate Barack Obama promised to transcend Washington partisanship.President Obama plummeted into it.As the House returns Tuesday for the final session of his first term, Obama’s failure to fulfill this central claim of his 2008 campaign has never been more glaringly obvious.The hard truth is that Washington next year will look indistinguishable from the one Obama warned against during his election-night victory speech, when he called on Republicans and Democrats to “resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has...

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