Media and political dictionary

Todays word is bipartisan.

bipartisan (adj.) ¹Republican politicians who acquiesce to Democratic plans to increase the size and scope of government.   ²Plans to expand the size of the government which are supported by both big-government statist Democrats and big-government statist Republicans.

As in,

A bipartisan pair of senators has urged President Obama’s debt commission to consider raising the gas tax to pay for infrastructure projects.

Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and George Voinovich (R-Ohio) have written to the chairmen of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform advocating for a 25-cent per gallon tax increase.

(Anyone think that the eventual debt commission recommendations won't be heavy on tax increases and light on spending cuts? Bueller? Anyone? Anyone? Yeah, me neither...)