List examples of when "bipartisanship" actually worked, for real.

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and for each example, which side actually benefitted more from the deal.

[IMayBeWrongBut]

1. Kinda funny how there are no replies to this. nt

nt

[BlooInBloo]

3. No it's not funny in the least. It's a contradictory request.

If one "side actually benefited more from the deal", then BY DEFINITION, it didn't "work" - one side got taken. Duh.

EDIT: "funny" -> "surprising"; The OP may as well have asked for an examples of squares, and then have us say which side was longer than the others.

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8. So, in your view, it's only "bipartisanship" if both sides each get EXACTLY 50% of the deal?

[BlooInBloo]

11. (shrug) If you don't like the 50-50 idea, why don't you tell me what...

... "actually worked" means?

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14. Tell ya what. Let's form a bipartisan task force and allocate $1 billion to study this question.

[BlooInBloo]

15. You're right. I shoulda just packed it in at your contradictory request...

... the making of such a request really does foreshadow everything else you might say - lol!

Lesson learned - thanks!

[hughee99]

12. As I see it, it's more a matter of apples and oranges...

Who actually "benefited" the most depends on the value one places on what they've gained, since rarely are the deals easily comparable. Even when it comes down to strictly money, does 1 billion spent on defense have the same value as 1 billion spent on education? I would suggest that the true definition of a bipartisan deal is that both sides were willing to give up what they did in order to gain what they got.

[BlooInBloo]

13. Needless complexification. "Perceived value" suffices.

[Captain Hilts]

2. When Bob Dole and Ted Kennedy ran the Senate.

They managed to turn around a lot of Reagan's dumb policies. Like taxes, funding for HUD, etc.

[ShaneGR]

4. Yup...

The problem is that most people only remember the last decade. There are dozens of examples pre 1994 that most people would never remember anyways.

[UTUSN]

5. Uh, when Shrub "won" in 2000 and ALL THE FUCKING MEDIA SAID

that he was going to be BIPARTISAN??????? Is THAT an example??????

[Ian David]

6. I still have to say the anti-telemarketing law is the ONLY good thing...

to come out of the Bush presidency.

But now, I would be willing to bet that the Do Not Call Registry was incorporated into the NSA Database.

[high density]

7. NAFTA??

I still have a partial recording of Al Gore debating Ross Perot on Larry King about it. DU's favorite, Al Gore, sounds like a Republican!

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9. I would guess that the Interstate Highway

system had bi-partisan support. I have heard Ike pushed it as a national defense thing and I would guess it had a lot of Democratic support too because of the public works jobs it created. Anything like that in todays political climate would be called socialism.

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10. When the founding fathers

wrote the Constitution.