Head to Head

Bipartisan. Yes this word was spoken by Obama throughout his campaign. Well along with other words such as unity, change and hope.

However I'm not so sure that Obama is following through with his bipartisan promises. Lets take the recent stimulu package.

It was WRITTEN without republican input, it was passed with 100% of republican house representatives voting no, and all but 3 republican senators voting no. I'm not so sure Obama understands the meaning of BIPARTISAN.

What are others saying about the stimulus bipartisanship?

"This legislation was driven by the White House, House Democrats and the Senate Democrats," said Larry Sabato, political science professor at the University of Virginia.

"Since taking over Congress and the White House, Democrats have been making up for lost time with a government spending spree on the taxpayer credit card," McConnell said. "Even without this massive spending bill, the deficit continues to grow."

Republicans have fought for more tax relief and less spending, but House Minority Leader John Boehner complained, "all the talk we've heard about bipartisanship...has gone down the drain."

Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist at the Columbia University and former chief economist at the World Bank, said that the stimulus package was "probably too little, especially given that it is badly designed (and) we haven't yet fixed the mortgage problem so the financial sector is likely to continue bleeding."

President Barack Obama privately promised Republicans that he stands ready to accept changes in the $825 billion economic stimulus legislation.