Was Mitch McConnell onto something?
Democrats have spent years bemoaning the Senate majority leader's reflexive obstruction of President Obama's agenda, but now that they're the ones out of power, they might need to become the "Party of No" themselves.
It was easy to chalk up McConnell's obstruction to raw cynicism, but there was a very specific theory behind it. "We thought — correctly, I think — that the only way the American people would know that a great debate was going on was if the measures were not bipartisan," McConnell once explained. "When you hang the 'bipartisan' tag on something, the perception is that differences have been worked out, and there's a broad agreement that that's the way forward."
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