Bipartisanship

So, a huge victory has been achieved. Maybe a little sanity will be restored. In the wake of this, someone in my office brought up the topic of bipartisanship. I spouted off without thinking my response through, but here's the gist. I don't believe in bipartisanship. Not when it is used as if throwing the other side a bone. That, to me, is a politician selling out, not doing the job, betraying the people who voted. I do believe in bipartisanship in the same way I DON'T believe in dogmatism. If party A sees a problem one way and so proposes one solution, and party B sees it another way and/or proposes a different solution, and the two debate and discuss, and one side convinces the other that their way is right/best, that’s great. I don't want politicians mindlessly following the paradigm of their party regardless of the reality of the situation. That kind of bipartisanship I can agree with. The listening and evaluating of ideas that seem contrary to the party line. But, really, that’s not bipartisanship. That’s basic problem solving.