In the Spirit of Bipartisanship

Via the Seattle Times:

Lynn Kessler, D-Hoquiam, the House majority leader, said she thinks the balanced budget bill is a good idea, but members of her caucus will likely view it with suspicion because Republicans did not approach her party to push the bill in a bi-partisan fashion. She noted that all the bill's sponsors are Republicans so "there must be something devious going on."

My guess is that she probably said this as a joke, maybe one with a grain of truth to it in her mind, but a joke nonetheless. The trouble with telling jokes to the print media is that the humour doesn't always come through.