"A choice, not an echo," Barry Goldwater supplied 42-years ago. "An echo, not a choice," Democrats and Republicans give us today. Is it time for a third party? On Iraq, immigration, government spending, and, with the controversy over the FBI raid on Rep. William Jefferson's office, even on congressional immunity from law enforcement, the two parties seem too close for comfort. Ironically--or not--as the parties grow closer together on policy they get further apart through partisanship. "The partisanship has gotten deeper as less separates the governing parties in Washington," Peggy Noonan writes in The Wall Street Journal. "It is like what has been said of academic infighting: that it's so vicious because the stakes are so low."