Sometimes it amazes me how short people’s memory is… Or for that matter how short the media wants our memory to be…

Take for example all of the headlines about how the Democrats and Republicans are going to work together in the new Democratic controlled Congress, and how the White House is going to work with the new Democratic leadership… RIGHT

Hmm I seem to recall hearing this same song and dance 6 years ago when the President first took office. Anybody remember the whole “I’m going to be a uniter not a divider” speeches the President made back then? The speeches that were made just weeks before the start of 6 years of incredibly divisive partisan politics… So why should we believe that the White House is going to be remotely interested in working with Congress?

Heck considering how positively nasty some many campaigns were leading up to the election does anybody actually think that either party is going to work with the other?

Something tells me that once the Congressional investigations of the past 6 years of governance get started by the Democrats, the Republicans will start screaming about how the Democrats are just trying to shut down government and keep anything from getting done… All the while hoping that we forget that the Republicans did the exact same thing to the Clinton Administration during it’s final years in office.

In case you missed it, what was one of the first things that the President did to work with the new Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill? Why, nominate crazy John Bolton as Ambassador to the United Nations. You remember John Bolton don’t you? John Bolton, the man with a history of bullying intelligence analysts to make sure the provide him the reports that supported his arguments, even if the reports are false? John Bolton who has stated that he doesn’t even like the UN, who’s nomination is so unpopular it can’t even get out of Comittee. The only reason this guy has a job is because the President has been sneaking it in as a “Recess Appointment” that allows the guy to hold the job for a year without Congress approving it. So the White House is working with the Democrats by submitting for nomination a guy that they know that there’s no way in the world the Democrats would approve… Right…