Word: partisans
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...Staff fails to consider Democratic committee members' strong political incentive to spin intelligence information, potentially shaming the Bush Administration for any imagined malfeasance. Aggressive partisan demands for information not germane to Sept. 11 can easily be construed as an attempt to garner political ammunition against Bush. Preserving the integrity of intelligence operations and national security in general must take priority over political bickering...
Schumer, D-N.Y., has exerted great influence over the approval of federal judges nominated by President Bush as a vocal member of the Senate Judiciary Committee—inciting a torrent of virulent partisan debate...
When the “Politics and Science” report was released last August, the White House played it off as partisan mud-slinging, and promised to rebut the specific charges. It has now been three months without another word from the administration. I called the White House earlier this week to ask for one: no luck. So, after a quarter of a year, the administration’s official defense amounts to the penetrating observation that the report was written by democrats—a response made all the more compelling given that such notorious partisan rags...
...Francisco, the most conservative Democrat, the sponsor of an initiative to reduce panhandlers, seemed poised to win - suggesting that Giuliani-style governance remains popular in liberal bastions. In New York City, mayor Mike Bloomberg?s effort to replace the city's primary system with the kind of non-partisan slates found in other cities got trounced. It does not bode well for his reelection chances...
...administration's two-step was quickly dubbed "bannergate," winning a suffix that the partisan and the bored often use to puff up the puniest of non-scandals. But while the banner business means little by itself, the shifting and shading could become a symbol of Bush's suddenly growing credibility problem, coming as it does in the wake of the controversy over claims in the president's State of the Union address and other pre-war speeches about Iraq's yet-to-materialize weapons of mass destruction and leaks from White House officials about the identity of a CIA operative...