According to The Washington Post, Trey Grayson (pictured), former Kentucky Secretary of State, and losing candidate for the 2010 Republican nomination for the Senate seat now held by Senator Rand Paul, has joined former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich in the organization of a new political action committee whose working name is “Gabby PAC.”



Giffords, whose valiant struggle to recover from the effects of an attempted assassination sparked bipartisan admiration, said in announcing the new PAC that, “Gabby PAC will only support candidates who are dedicated to working hard for commonsense, bipartisan solutions that strengthen our communities and our entire country…”



This sounds great, except for one small detail: again, according to The Washington Post, Gabby PAC will only support Democrats.



Much as we can all admire Giffords in her fight to recover from her wounds, we shouldn’t let that obscure what this is really all about – redefining what constitutes “bipartisanship.”



What Giffords, Reich -- a liberal Democratic Party insider if there ever was one -- and Grayson are trying to do is redefine “bipartisan” to cut conservative Republicans out of the equation to focus on the one area where Democrats and establishment Republicans agree: more spending.



This is the same idea of “bipartisanship” that Republican turncoat former Florida Governor Charlie Crist embraced when he gave Barack Obama a big hug, and for which conservative Republican primary voters rejected him and ran him off the ballot.



This is also the same kind of “bipartisanship” that Grayson’s mentor, Senator Mitch McConnell, is famous for. So it should come as no surprise that two losing Senate candidates that McConnell backed – Crist and Grayson – have now gone over to the Democrats where those who equate spending the taxpayers’ money with “public service” find a more hospitable environment.



Grassroots conservatives and Tea Partiers are now the energetic heart of the Republican Party. Our idea of “bipartisanship” is to find even one Democrat who will join us in getting America off the road to bankruptcy by reducing spending to cut the deficit and debt. So far, that kind of “bipartisanship” is hard to come by.



The kind of “bipartisanship” on spending and the growth of government that establishment insiders like Giffords, Reich, Crist, Grayson and McConnell are pedaling is what got us into our current fiscal mess. It hardly needs another PAC, led by Democratic Party insiders and Republican turncoats, to promote it.