Word: partisans
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...Schlesinger has always seemed to hold the public service ideal above mere partisan politics, serving under both Republican and Democratic administrators...
When I reached the I-Man, he told me he was just trying to be funny, not hurt anyone's feelings. He said TomPaine.com was miffed because it had bought an ad on his show that he wouldn't read because it was too partisan. He nearly convinced me that his quarrel with Nobile wasn't worth writing about...
...Chinese embassy in Belgrade during the Kosovo war, the committee maintains that lack of funding and leadership from the White House has left the nation's human and electronic intelligence-gathering systems in a poor state of preparedness and put the nation at risk. Stripped of its partisan tilt - it takes two, after all, to underfund a government agency - the report may be pointing to a deeper reality: Optimal security is attained not by the efficient investigation and prosecution of spies, but by prevention and counterintelligence...
...Miami relatives and Democrats. And it's not just Congress's most volatile members giddy with excitement over re-enacting The Story of Elian, but also Senate majority leader Trent Lott and Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch. Undeterred by George W. Bush's lack of enthusiasm for such partisan theatrics, Lott boasted he would get to the bottom of where the obviously hopeless negotiations stood at the time of the dawn raid. And House majority whip Tom DeLay went ballistic over the government's "jackbooted thugs." He was far more publicly incensed by U.S. marshals using guns to forestall...
...degree, McCain is doing more than abandoning whatever integrity he has. He is also abandoning the voters who believed this message enough to cast their ballots for him. The move toward Bush constitutes the typical move made by a top challenger to the nominee. And McCain received the bi-partisan cult following he had for being atypical. The conventional political two-step could easily backfire by exposing him as just another disingenuous ego-filled presidential hopeful willing to sell himself for his career...