Word: bipartisanship
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Essentially this means he will abandon most attempts at bipartisanship, except for his military buildup in the Persian Gulf. "This election," says far-right activist Richard Viguerie, "was a wake-up call for George Bush, the Wall Street wing of the Republican Party and the tax-and-spend Democrats." But a degree of bipartisanship is also necessary at home if the country is to deal with its many problems. Last week's elections demonstrated that all too many voters still believe the old fantasy of Reaganomics that taxes can be cut while government programs grow. Bush ran for the presidency...
Talk about bipartisanship. Until two days before the election, Ben Bagert was the Republican Party's official nominee to run for the Louisiana Senate seat held by three-term Democratic incumbent J. Bennett Johnston Jr. But state representative and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke was also in the primary race as a Republican, running a campaign that played on white resentment over affirmative action and welfare. Though polls gave Johnston about half the vote in the Oct. 6 primary, they also showed Bagert, a state senator, badly trailing Duke. That opened up the possibility...
...over Bush's insistence on a capital-gains tax cut that would mainly benefit taxpayers earning $200,000 or more a year. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell blocked that measure, promising that he would make no more budget deals with the White House and observing sourly that "for them, bipartisanship is a one-way street...
...senior Administration official concedes, "It is not unreasonable for Democrats to feel that we define bipartisanship as their doing what we want them to do. Being cooperative did not get them much last year." This official would prefer to trade favors and make deals -- to allow the Democrats "to be the winners sometimes to get what we want." But Sununu and others, adds the official, "have a real desire to inflict pain for its own sake...