- september 6, 2009 -
- washington d.c. -

in an effort to streamline its operations, the democratic party announced today that it would appoint a committee of 3 democrats and 3 republicans to run the democratic party. senior democrats hailed the move as the ultimate way to "reach across the aisle."

a leading democratic senator said, "we needed to get away from everything being so partisan, especially after the last eight years. republicans were always claiming us of being partisan, and while it usually wasn't true, we couldn't really deny it since we were all democrats running the party. so our point of view was completely ignored."

"now, with a committee of 3 republicans and 3 democrats running the party, we're in a much better position to respond, especially if 2 of the 3 democrats are blue dogs. they'll always insist that everything we do is partisan, but now we can say, 'yes, sorry, you are probably right, let us abandon nearly all of our goals,' and then we have a shot of actually getting heard on the one or two goals we keep.' it's great leadership, just what america and the democratic party needs in the post-partisan era."

democratic leaders added that when it comes time to negotiate with republicans on critical legislation, they wouldn't need to compromise much because the republican view would already be built into the democratic proposal. With majorities in both houses and control of the white house, this strategy could lead to passing legislation that the entire republican party could get support, democratic leaders say, which they termed "real bipartisanship". "of course, we expect some of the liberal in our party to complain and maybe even not vote for that sort of thing, but we don't see that as a problem; there are more republicans than liberals."

when reached for comment, a liberal democrat could not produce a sound bite.