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The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.

All presidents get frustrated with Congress.

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.

The Republican party has become as hostile towards its own base as the Liberals have always been.

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.

Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who did us the courtesy of scoring a budget. The president has to talk to Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has reached the debt ceiling before anyone expected.