Muckety Moover - 60 - 39

Partisanship has never been more pronounced.

In one of the most sweeping measures ever addressed by the Senate, every Democrat voted for health care reform and every Republican (save one missing Senator, Jim Bunning) voted against.

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As a measure of merit legislative or constituent need, the numbers would Defy All Odds. Only when mapped by party affiliation do the figures add up.

"Party-line vote" does not begin to describe it.

As Timothy Egan wrote Tuesday in The Times, this is the era of hyper-partisanship and of toxic nastiness.