Until Nancy Pelosi beats Joe Wilson on the floor of the house with an ivory handled cane, we will not have reached the level of civility that preceeded the civil war.
Anyone who can’t see a difference between the parties is simply ignorant. Would Bush have nationalized the banks and the auto companies as Obama has done? Given ownership to the unions? I doubt it. He acquiesed to TARP as professional courtesy to Obama. He did it because Obama asked him to do so, and he wanted to position Obama to execute a cohesive policy, no matter how wrong-headed.