Bold new post-partisan lobbying firm ... civility ... zzzzz

Here, have another bold,
refreshing can of nothing.
  Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the next No Labels, Third Way, Americans Elect, etc., etc., etc. It's a new lobbying firm to be called Purple Nation Solutions, presumably to evoke the image of choking the will to live out of every last citizen that might encounter them, and it's going to be led by the notably ineffectual Republican Party ex-chairman Michael Steele and the noted go-to lobbyist for future history's greatest monsters (oh, and Fox News token Democrat) Lanny Davis. Because that is exactly what, according to them, America needs most.

Now they are joining forces'politically and in business'to urge their parties to tone down the negativity and personal attacks.

 'We're not saying 'Kumbaya,'' Steele tells me. 'We're not saying, can we all hold hands and sit around the campfire.' But he insists that 'people have grown tired' of the daily demonization. 'It's boring. It's not entertaining any more.'

In forming a lobbying, media, and consulting firm, Purple Nation Solutions, the two lawyers aren't exactly merging their views into a centrist muddle. 'I'm pro-choice, he's not,' Davis says. 'I'm for gun control, he's not gun control. I'm in favor of increasing taxes--'

'And Lord knows I'm not,' Steele interjects.

Aw, that's so cute! Look, everybody, they're a regular Odd Couple! They will valiantly decide to work for you no matter what your goddamn opinion is on something. Want to cut your own taxes? They can help with that. Want to convince the folks in Washington that your history of anti-democratic corruption and human rights abuses in Africa is just totally overblown? Just get our names right on the check, pal!

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