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Originally Posted by host
Is it your opinion that there are "two acutely diverse political ideologies"? If that is the case....in the senate....with it's reputation for being the more deliberative legislative body, and not as politically motivated as the house, with it's two year election cycle, is.....how would you explain the 95 to 2, <a href="http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=101881">2005 vote</a> that resulted in the approval of the appointment of a man like John Negroponte as the US "Intelligence Czar"?
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No, my opinion is that it is in the best interest of those in politics, republicans and democrats, to have their constituencies sharply divided, thereby assuring blindly ideological voting blocs, thereby further marginalizing third party politics. Your observation that republicans and democrats get along better at work than does the voting public is both
true and fits nicely into my personal theory that for the media business the promotion of political turmoil is opportunistic, and for the politics business itself, it is a matter of job security and maintainance of the DC status quo.