They should put some footnotes in the Bible explaining this, because the Pharisees come off looking pretty bad in it. They disagree of fundamental issues, like who should be proslytized to. And the Pharisees claimed Jesus was doing the work of the devil when he was healing. Barely any mention of Sadducees.
They certainly do. But the message is this: while Pharisaism as a school possesses much wisdom, followers of the school often go astray through pride.
Nicodemus the Pharisee does not come off looking bad at all.
They disagree of fundamental issues, like who should be proslytized to.
No they do not. Both the Pharisees and Jesus believed that non-Jews should be proselytized.
And the Pharisees claimed Jesus was doing the work of the devil when he was healing.
Some Pharisees did. Other Pharisees did not and reserved judgment or followed him.
The Pharisees were an informal religious movement within Judaism and the words of one Pharisee certainly did not indicate the attitude of all Pharisees - at the time of Jesus they were already split into various factions.
Barely any mention of Sadducees.
Any mention of Jewish priests or scribes in the New Testament is a reference to the Sadducees, since the Sadducees were the priestly party within Judaism. There are about 90 references to the Pharisees in the Gospels, about 15 references to the Sadducees by name and about 100 references to priests and scribes.
About even.
It was the Sadducees who actually put Jesus on trial for his life.