Senate Democrat Leader Charles E. Schumer, quoted in the New York Times, September 8, 2017 on the agreement that he and House Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi reached with President Trump to fund government spending for three months: "'It was a really good moment of some bipartisanship...'" In the next to last paragraph of the story, readers learn that Republicans proposed "an 18-month deal on government spending and the debt limit only to run into resistance from the Democrats." The article then noted that the Republicans "proposed a six-month deal as a compromise, but Democrats insisted on a three months agreement. Mt. Trump then surprised the Republicans by agreeing with the Democrats." As of September 8th, the Times has yet to offer editorial comment on this example of "bipartisanship," leftist-style. The lead letter to the editor, September 8, on this bipartisan deal, however, from Michael Scott in San Francisco, included the...(Read Full Post)