Who was the most bipartisan U.S. President?

[Lief 🗽]

I love how the guy with the notorious enemy list who got caught on tape calling pretty much everybody coc*suckers is the bipartisan U.S. President of note around here.

This forum loves Nixon, for some reason.

[© tweed]

I love how the guy with the notorious enemy list who got caught on tape calling pretty much everybody coc*suckers is the bipartisan U.S. President of note around here.

This forum loves Nixon, for some reason.

nostalgia for when the GOP had to govern like that.  instead of being straight-up agents of accumulated capital (which no doubt Nixon would've been if he felt it was possible).

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

Bush 41

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I love how the guy with the notorious enemy list who got caught on tape calling pretty much everybody coc*suckers is the bipartisan U.S. President of note around here.

Well, at least he was bipartisan in his enemies. Earl Warren decided to retire in 1968 to spite Nixon, but Nixon got to fill his seat after all thanks to a filibuster.

[TNF]

I love how the guy with the notorious enemy list who got caught on tape calling pretty much everybody coc*suckers is the bipartisan U.S. President of note around here.

This forum loves Nixon, for some reason.

nostalgia for when the GOP had to govern like that.  instead of being straight-up agents of accumulated capital (which no doubt Nixon would've been if he felt it was possible).

shh, you'll ruin all the libs' fairy tales about the "reasonable" GOP of the 1970s, man

[MATTROSE94]

Probably George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eusenhower, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

[The Vorlon]

In the modern era, I think Ike gets the nod.

Mind you , back in the 50s the gap between the two parties was fairly small by todays standards.   There was also diversity within each party - a north eastern republican was likely more liberal than a southern democrat, just as an example...  It seems like ancient history now but the GOP as a party was actually more in favour of civail rights than the democrats.  In 1964 a higher % of the GOP in Congress voted from the civil rights act than did the Democrats.

Clinton accepted reality after HilaryCare got him slaughtered in 1994, and that was actually a period of approximately bipartisan and reality based governance.

Ford was "bipartisan" for the same reason, he was so crippled politically by Nixon he had little choice.

[LeBron]

President Obama for a modern day one. His foreign policy has been hawkish, he's proposed to cut funding for social security, and he goes through hoops to try and please Boehner while attempting to pass a number of things.

Theodore Roosevelt might be the best past day bipartisan President though. Although the Republicans did control Congress at the time with him, his progressive, government intervention ideas were shared by Democrats and Republicans alike.

Yet the right is never pleased with Obama. Attempting to be bipartisan does not mean you are bipartisan.

As for Roosevelt, LOL. Leaving the Republican party and running a protest ticket is not bipartisan.

The right is never pleased with the President because they're never willing to compromise on anything. Wanting a law repealed that had already been passed, signed and upheld in order to restore the government is not compromise. It's blackmail and what Republicans were asking for was irrational. The Democrats wanted to work with the Republicans on a fair and double-sided deal that could benefit and please both parties after they asked time and time again for Republicans to go to conference with them, yet refused.

And protest? He did it because Roosevelt felt betrayed and got screwed over by Taft and the other delegates who denied Roosevelt the Republican nomination. In 1912, Taft ran to the right, Wilson ran to the left, Debs ran to the far left, but Roosevelt stayed in the middle more than anybody. President Obama himself even honored Roosevelt once in saying he gave a "fair chance" to every American and could work with both sides of the aisle.

[Non Swing Voter]

Ford, Clinton.