From Washington Post
Let’s Hope That Bipartisanship Is Not Extinct

By Ruth Marcus

Look, there’s Ted Kennedy, shoulder-to-shoulder with John McCain, Republican presidential front-runner, just after the collapse of the immigration deal the pair had brokered. And there he is, again, right behind a beaming Mitt Romney — Kennedy’s ‘94 Senate opponent, Massachusetts governor and, yes, 2008 Republican presidential wannabe — as Romney signs a health care bill.

What, you may ask, is wrong with these pictures? The icon of Democratic liberalism, the Republicans’ favorite fundraising device (just mention “Teddy” and a torrent of direct-mail dollars gushes forth) — what’s he up to — consorting with the opposition and helping its presidential prospects?

The answer is that he’s up to nothing more than Kennedy business as usual.

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