Death of Bipartisanship in Washington?

This POLITICO article highlights a prominent Washington meme, which is that there is declining popular support for bipartisan solutions to national problems, and that people want government control unified under one political party. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/72132.html   The authors cite Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a ruthlessly efficient partisan warrior when he was in Congress, “We need to take on the mythology that divided government produces progress.  Divided government produces divided government.”

With respect to da Mare, our last two experiences with unified government (during George W Bush’s first term and the first two years of Obama) produced, respectively, the Iraq War and a deeply unpopular Health Reform law.  The controlling parties were decisively repudiated in subsequent Congressional elections.  While it is rhetorically satisfying to push for political hegemony, it is precisely the attempt by these two intellectually bankrupt parties to aggrandize political power that so infuriates an electorate nearly forty percent of whom are neither Republican nor Democrat but independent. These two minority parties are turning off the nation, not mobilizing it.

Where do we get solutions to our pressing national problems (an unsustainable deficit, a looming entitlement crisis, underinvestment in infrastructure, etc.) when, as seems highly likely, 2012 returns a divided government to Washington?  Wait for 2014 or 2016?