article_snippet: (CNN)In Washington, we are seeing the re-emergence this year of a phenomenon that many Americans were afraid had gone extinct: real live no-joke bipartisanship.
article_snippet: I doubt if we will ever agree on tax policy, campaign finance reform, environmental rules or the Keystone Pipeline, to name a few.
article_snippet: Progressives and conservatives don't have to trust each other -- or even like each other -- to vote together on this issue.
article_snippet: Usually, "bipartisanship" is just another word for cheap, political gamesmanship.
article_snippet: It will take both parties to reverse course.
article_snippet: Perhaps the March 26 Bipartisan Summit will represent the first major bend in the road back toward sanity.