… ’cause the Council on Foreign Relations says it’s bad: Rising Partisanship Weakening U.S. Role in the World Council Study Recommends Steps to Reduce Partisan Divide October 5, 2005 — The current climate of partisan politics is weakening U.S. primacy and American leadership, concludes a new report from the Council on Foreign Relations. The jam-packed Tuesday-through-Thursday schedule for members of Congress means that fewer Democrats and Republicans actually know and relate to one another in Washington. Thus, foreign policy is often conceived and hatched on one side of the aisle, without the constructive, honing fire of a truly deliberative, non-ideological … Continue reading More Partisanship, Please…