TPM Reader LP:

Before Republicans are allowed back into the better graces of the American people and into the political half-way house of provisional respectability, they have to prove to the country they can be long-term, honest participants in the positive governing consensus now beginning the process of building out the country as a modern state capable of living, compromising, and playing well with others.

Late Update: Au contraire, says TPM Reader JP:

I don't think I could disagree more. Ad hominem attacks against all Republicans are not constructive. While I certainly think this is a fair critique of some in the Repbulican party, consensus will only come about if Democrats include them in the discussion if the governing consensus is to succeed. Like it or not, Republicans represent a significant point of view in our polity. Exclude them from the discussion and dismiss them as something other than honest participants and the fragile governing consensus will collapse. Perhaps that's why Obama is seeking input from McCain, Graham and others in the more moderate end of Republican thought.