Word: bipartisanship
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...Once you have a Republican majority, I don't see how he'll get anything through," Price says. "The Republicans running things don't believe in bipartisanship...
...also can't do much to encourage bipartisanship that Democrats are suspicious about the fairness of Kenneth Starr, the successor to Whitewater special prosecutor Robert Fiske, who has a long history as a Republican activist. Their doubts were heightened by news reports that Judge David B. Sentelle, one of the panel of three judges who chose Starr, had recently been lunching with North Carolina Republican Senator Lauch Faircloth, one of Fiske's harshest critics. Though Sentelle says he and Faircloth never discussed Fiske, Democratic House whip David Bonior suggested last week that their meeting "should be a subject of investigation...
Despite Clinton's pleas for bipartisanship, there has never been much hope of bringing many Republicans on board. But while they have enough votes to stop any bill through a filibuster, that's a tactic that minority leader Dole is reluctant to use. He fears it will anger voters who want a vote on health care, not a procedural coup de grace. As G.O.P. pollster Bill McInturff warns, if reform dies on the floor, "Republicans have to be careful to keep our fingerprints off the murder weapon." The real threat to the Mitchell plan comes from Democrats and their supporters...
...yacht with Willie Horton -- got him out of prison for the afternoon, figured he owed Willie a lot -- when news breaks of an invasion of Chicago: wave after wave of squat, flat- nosed horsemen in leather skirts, waving their fists and rolling their little red eyes. Bush calls for bipartisanship and issues a statement that barbarianism is a long-term problem, no quick solutions, the answer is education. The President will, it is promised, decide soon whether to name a barbarian czar to coordinate the federal effort. So as to appear calm and in control, Bush flies to Kennebunkport...
...liberals. By tying child-care benefits to the earned-income tax credit, conservatives won incentives for those who would work their way out of poverty. At the same time, liberals were able to broaden government support for working mothers. There are other signs that America is ready for bipartisanship: no line in George Bush's Inaugural speech received more applause than his admonishment to Congress, "They didn't send us here to bicker...