The creation date of the file was listed as December 27, 2000; but as you can see, it's just as accurate today at illustrating the GOP attitude toward bipartisanship as it was back then.
To this image allow me to add an excerpt from Book One of John Milton's Paradise Lost.
Read it carefully and note the similarity of both purpose and tone between the rhetoric of the leaders of today's defeated and recalcitrant Republican Party and the words of Satan as he surveyd the landscape of his new domain:
| Hail, horrors! hail, | 250 |
| Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, | |
| Receive thy new possessor—one who brings | |
| A mind not to be changed by place or time. | |
| The mind is its own place, and in itself | |
| Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. | 255 |
| What matter where, if I be still the same, | |
| And what I should be, all but less than he | |
| Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least | |
| We shall be free; the Almighty hath not built | |
| Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: | 260 |
| Here we may reign secure; and, in my choice, | |
| To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell: | |
| Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. | |
| But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, | |
| The associates and co-partners of our loss, | 265 |
| Lie thus astonished on the oblivious pool, | |
| And call them not to share with us their part | |
| In this unhappy mansion, or once more | |
| With rallied arms to try what may be yet | |
| Regained in Heaven, or what more lost in Hell?” | 270 |
Finally, click the image below to watch Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's response to Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana regarding his charge that President Obama "was used for propaganda purposes" because he shook the hand of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
If Secretary Clinton deals with foreign blowhards even half as effectively as she did with this GOP blowhard, our country's foreign policy is in very capable hands.
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