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...full attention. But the president must put his shoulder into the debate over an economic stimulus package or nothing is going to get done. That's the opinion of members of Congress anyway, who are only getting farther away from compromise. Their debate has an almost quaint pre-war partisan bitterness to it: Democrats say Republican tax cuts are for the rich, and Republicans claim Democratic spending plans are inefficient and wasteful. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is saying no bill is better than a bad bill, and House Republican leaders are cranking up the invective, blaming the Senate leader...
...Brown men’s soccer team came to Cambridge on Saturday to play Harvard in one of the Crimson’s most crucial matches in recent years. In front of a partisan Brown crowd at Ohiri Field, the Bears (7-7-2, 5-1-1 Ivy) rattled off three goals and headed home with an Ivy League co-championship...
...understand the Republican rationale even if they disagree with it. But why bother admitting that the enemies on your political hit list have reasons to think the way they do? It’s a lot more fun (and a whole lot more frightening) to paint them as mindless partisan zombies. Still, you’d think that when Republicans and Democrats come up with a bad idea together they’d share the blame, right...
Democrats, on the other hand, are saintly paragons of bipartisanship who ought to be canonized any day now. So when Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee rammed their own favor-bloated stimulus plan to committee approval last Friday, all those preachers of partisan doomsday scarcely uttered a peep. Apparently it’s just fine to appropriate $5.5 billion for government purchases of, among other things, bison meat and watermelons—so long as the favored constituents happen to vote for the party of the jackass...
There are substantive debates to be had over the merits of cutting taxes, drilling in the Arctic, letting the private sector provide airport security and a host of other Republican priorities. But it is an act of intellectual dereliction to categorically dismiss those ideas as nothing but partisan favoritism. Winning the battle for public opinion requires a more sophisticated argument than prattling about how ghastly it is for Republicans to disagree with Democrats. Voices from the left ought to drop their scary stories and at least try to put up a real fight...