Muckety mover - 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.

As a measure of legislative merit or constituent need, the numbers would defy all odds. Only when mapped by party affiliation do they add up.

“Party-line vote” doesn’t begin to describe it.

As Timothy Egan wrote Wednesday in The Times, this is an epoch of hyper-partisanship and toxic nastiness.

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