Word: hyperpartisan
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This isn't hard in our hyperpartisan age. But it is especially easy for Grayson and Bachmann. Elected in 2008, he came into politics as a litigator of war profiteers in Iraq who affixed a bush lied/people died bumper sticker to his car. She came up through grass-roots Republican politics as a culture warrior, working to ban gay marriage, expand the teaching of intelligent design and restrict abortion. In another era, strident politicians on the ideological edges found themselves marginalized once they got to Washington, where power accrues to longevity--and longevity tends to mellow. But Grayson and Bachmann...
...member of the conservative commentariat. This episode only illustrated how, lacking leadership and a clear direction, the Grand Old Party remains wedded to “principles” with no practical application to the crisis we’re in, a parade of political stunts accompanied by the hyperpartisan pronouncements of Rush Limbaugh and that curious crew holding forth on Fox News...
...equally important question is whether that will in turn influence a now dominant Democratic Party in Washington. Central to Obama's cross-party appeal was his clarion call to end America's corrosive red-blue polarization. Republican pols like Crist may take that ideal even more seriously than the hyperpartisan likes of Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. It's a long shot, but a more centrist-minded GOP could be the country's best guarantor against the Democrats indulging their own more extremist urges...
...which explains why the caricature of Emanuel in Congress as a hyperpartisan Democrat is both true and beside the point. He is a partisan, in the sense that he is a tireless advocate - but he is that way whether he's advocating for the Democratic Party in congressional races or for legislation on behalf of his President that many Democrats oppose. (Read "Congressional Races to Watch...
...Obama, predictably, swiped back at McCain. "This is a moment of national crisis, and today's inaction in Congress as well as the angry and hyperpartisan statement released by the McCain campaign are exactly why the American people are disgusted with Washington," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement. "Now is the time for Democrats and Republicans to join together and act in a way that prevents an economic catastrophe." Given Monday's blame game, the odds of both sides rising to the occasion don't look very good...