[ by Larry Goldfarb ]

Now let me get this right, Chris Christie had only nice things to say about the President and dismissed Mitt Romney?  When asked by, who else, FoxNews if Romney should also make a tour of the devastation, Christie dismissed the need and said we should not play politics.  Did I hear that right?  Is Mitch McConnell or Harry Reid throwing up in the back room?

I thought bipartisanship was dead.  I guess not.  Right now, our country has too many serious problems to be constantly fighting, to blame or disclaim.  It seems that every issue has a winner or a loser and both sides make it clear that this is a battle to the death.  In Christie, at least on the national stage, there is no greater partisan proponent.  Yet after the storm, he seemed to embrace the idea that the parties can work together.  He felt that the good from embracing the President outweighed the political backlash from say Grover Norquist’s American’s for Tax Reform. Even the idea of getting money from the Federal government did not leave a bad taste in his mouth.  But come to think of it, how do we get the money and not increase the defecit?

The need for creative solutions to all of our issues requires the country to come together.  We need the right to recognize that after a storm of the century every year, it might be time for them to recognize global warming.  I think the left needs to recognize that a private/public partnership may be a better answer than a colossal government program. So I ask, if the two parties can work together in a crisis situation, why can’t they collaborate to deal with the everyday business of the country?