Where White House Bipartisanship Comes From

What does it take to get the Bush Administration to reach out to congressional Democrats on matters of foreign policy?

As Steve Benen of The Carpetbagger Report tells us, Bush will do it when the Saudis order him to do it:

The Bush administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve an arms sale package for Saudi Arabia and its neighbors that is expected to eventually total $20 billion at a time when some United States officials contend that the Saudis are playing a counterproductive role in Iraq. ... The Saudis had requested that Congress be told about the planned sale, the officials said, in an effort to avoid the kind of bruising fight on Capitol Hill that occurred in the 1980s over proposed arms sales to the kingdom.