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...meeting has been in the works for months, almost since the earliest days of the Obama Administration, and postponed at least once. It is just the most recent display of bipartisan goodwill between current and past holders of the highest office in the land. These alliances often span vast differences in both ideology and age: Richard Nixon paid a secret visit to Bill Clinton, 33 years his junior, to discuss Russia policy in 1993; Herbert Hoover met with John F. Kennedy, 38 years his junior, before he was inaugurated in 1960. Bush, at 85, is 37 years older than Obama...
...uninsured children and families. Amid the grim statistics, the foundation mentions a bright spot: the fact that recent expansion of children's health-care programs has helped lower the number of uninsured children. The notion that young people should have access to adequate health care has long drawn bipartisan political support; reaching that same goal with adults has, until now, proven far more difficult to accomplish...
...both houses of Congress and the major television networks whenever he wants them. Instead of ignoring people's objections until they get socialized medicine and realize they like it, as England's leaders did, Obama is worried about seducing Olympia Snowe so he can say his health bill is bipartisan. Do you know how long it takes to charm people from Maine? They're uptight white people coated with a hard exterior made from other uptight white people. While Obama negotiates on climate change, the Chinese government has forced China's entire tech industry to focus on energy efficiency...
...addition to pressuring Obama on Afghanistan, McCain has criticized the President for what he calls Obama's hypocritical hiring of lobbyists. He blasted the White House's decision to kill a missile-defense project in Eastern Europe planned by Bush. McCain has declined to join bipartisan talks on climate change, though he has written similar legislation in the past. And on health-care reform, an issue that he criticized Obama for being fuzzy about during the campaign, McCain has said, "Americans have made it abundantly clear that they do not want government taking over their health-care decisions...
Facing a bastion of liberal policy-making in Washington and coping with a lack of charismatic leadership, Republicans are licking their wounds and trying to regroup from last November. Meanwhile, factions of moderate Republicans try to distance themselves from the far-right adherents to Beck and Limbaugh. Where bipartisan collaboration is needed, there are those willing to put their country first and reach across the aisle. But when it comes to simply giving up to a majority without fighting for principle, Republicans keep on truckin?...