Word: bipartisanship
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...Baucus unveiled his bill last week. His Senate Finance Committee begins its formal markup of the legislation on Tuesday. And still no Republicans have signed on. Despite the Montana Senator's unshakable confidence that his push for bipartisanship will bear fruit, it is looking increasingly likely that Democrats will have to go it alone on health care - or at least virtually alone, with Maine Senator Olympia Snowe, the one moderate Republican who has remained open to supporting the bill. Walking down the corridors of the Senate on Sept. 17, I encountered a senior Senate Democratic aide whistling Simon & Garfunkel...
...what kept Republicans Senators Mike Enzi and Chuck Grassley at the bargaining table long after all expectations had died that they would ever sign on to a deal: as much as they would be happy to kill health-care reform, Republicans want to make the case that they gave bipartisanship their all. In fact, both cited "partisan deadlines" as reasons that they couldn't vote for the bill...
Baucus, Senator Max • bipartisanship is achieved by with health-care-reform bill hated on both sides of the aisle but, unsurprisingly, loved by the health-care industry that has given so much money to the campaigns...
...time in which to implement reforms or else have a public option come into existence at the end of the window should they fail to meet certain benchmarks. Many other options are available, and we hope Democrats remain open to flexibility and give each alternative a fair consideration. Bipartisanship, however, can be a double-edged sword. Whereas some Republicans, like Snowe, are well intentioned and are sincerely working on health-care reform in order to better the bill, others, such as Iowa Senator Charles Grassley and Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi, are wasting the president’s time by negotiating...
...Alienated liberals by paying more attention to bipartisanship (and a form of Clintonian triangulation) than to party orthodoxy...