It appears to me that Obama is making the same mistakes that the Democrats always seem to make when it comes to dealing with Republicans.  When will the Democrats realize that they cannot have any type of bipartisan relationship with the Republicans without totally sacrificing their ideals like Bill Clinton did with his welfare reform bill of 1996. Just as the Republicans take their views about torture from the fictional tv show 24, the Democrats are still addicted to the West Wing. In the West Wing the Republicans are depicted as being decent human beings who are lookng out for the best interest of the country. But in reality as the last eight years have taught us that this is not the case. It aggravates me that Obama put in some unecessary tax cuts in order to get Republican support, but the Republicans still voted against his stimulus bill anyway. The Democrats need to got over the West Wing and start playing hardball against the Republicans and defend their ideals.