President Obama has “handled his presidential image with the same dexterity he showed as a candidate,” writes E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post. “His outreach to Republicans has been popular because a streak of anti-partisanship has run through the American soul since the founding of the republic.”
But this also presents a problem, Dionne says. “If achieving bipartisanship takes priority over the actual content of policy, Republicans are handed a powerful weapon. In theory, they can keep moving the bipartisan bar indefinitely. And each concession to their sensibilities threatens the solidarity in the president’s own camp.”
Read the full commentary at washingtonpost.com.
