The disease of bipartisanship: Will it infect the
environment?

Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr., says George W. Bush
plans his bipartisanship around compromise-prone
conservative Democrats. “It is this conservative bipartisan
coalition that allows Ralph Nader to say we have one
corporate party with two different names,” says Jackson.
He adds, “If Democrats go down this bipartisan path it
will only strengthen Nader and the Greens for 2002 and
2004.”

With Bush appointees such as Gale Norton, and a Bush
agenda so unfriendly to the environment and civil
liberties, we need an opposition party to the Republicans.
I would like to see the Democrats rise to the occasion.
Jackson and certain Progressive Caucus members have
their fingers on the electorate’s pulse. Conservative,
compromise-prone Democrats would be wise to remove
their fingers from their ears and feel that pulse, too.

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