A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days

Is this how the next, great, governing majority in America acts?

Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C) has further ingratiated himself with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi -- not -- by declaring that Pelosi and Harry Reid "failed" the bipartisanship test on stimulus.

"In order for us to get the confidence of America, it has to be done in a bipartisan way," Shuler said in Raleigh following an economic forum, according to the AP.

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Here's the kicker: "I truly feel that's where maybe House leadership and Senate leadership have really failed."

And the reply from Reid's office--I see the Senate Majority Leader picks personnel after his own heart:

Let me get this straight - this is coming from a guy who threw more than twice as many interceptions than touchdowns?

If this is what the party of Obama is like in victory, imagine what they would be like in defeat.