This is what bipartisanship looks like. And it’s not pretty

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Congressional partisanship is at its worst, as Wednesday’s toxic impeachment debate showed. But here’s something even more harmful to the republic: bipartisanship.

Republicans and Democrats got together over the summer and hammered out a budget deal, which they consummated this past week in two bills to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year. The bills spend way too much money. Worse, they are packed from Left to Right with cronyist giveaways.

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