The Bipartisan President

Mr Barack Obama's presidency has struggled with an extremism that was, at the least, less visible before his election.

From the violence of Tea Party supporters towards critics of their candidates to numerous issues playing themselves out in Arizona, like immigration law & prison profits; Obama has struggled to run his administration in the bipartisan manner he wanted.

So it will be a real coup for Obama and other American moderates that a bipartisan debt deal has been reached. So will this spark a new era of cooperation? Are we on the verge of a third party in maintream American politics, a Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican Party? Is this the time when a Moderate Party takes the middle ground and isolates the extreme wings of both major parties?

According to Chris Weigant in the HuffPost, probably not.

When covering last September's Remarks by the President on the Economy, Weigant points to how Obama himself stresses the gap between Republican & Democrat positions. A bipartisan party will have to remain a pipedream for the moment, but a move towards more parties & more moderacy remains a shift that could really change American political discourse for the better.