I keep hearing it over and over, whether it is from pundits either left or right wing, as well as from politicians across the spectrum.

John Warner supports the non-binding resolution and he is no wild liberal. Pat Robertson acknowledges global warming and he isn't some wild eyed liberal. (no he's a wild eyed fundamentie).

Am I the only one who finds it alarming, because it is discounting the liberal or Democratic perspective as not valid or objective.

The enormous irony is that we all know which party has made more statements without credibility, and it isn't the liberals and Democrats.

At the very least, could we ask our own party members to cut it out?

I mean bipartisan efforts are one thing, but this is kind of self-destructive or so I fear for our side.

What happens when we really want to pass a bill and there are almost no GOP'ers supporting it? I don't want to find we've painted ourselves into a corner that we can only escape with the assistance of those unassailable paragons of virtue - the right wing GOP.

People have voted for change, they are the source of our mandate, our power. Not the few stray GOP'ers, who are as welcome as can be IMO, who at this time are supporting some of the same issues we do. Whether they do it from true conviction or political expediency and fear after the last election, fact is they had a LOT of years to start making the same changes.

They did NOT do so.

The people are smart enough to have wanted to dump them from power. The people are smart enough to know we don't have rely on the agreement of members of the discredited now minority party for validity and credence for our beliefs, IMO.