Word: partisans
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Gore tack--indeed, much of last week's party convention in Los Angeles--left them scratching their head and pining for that old Clinton magic. Why does Gore have to use the word fight 20 times in his speech when every survey shows many swing voters want all the partisan fighting to stop? "It's hard to lead a nation by dividing it, by pitting people against each other," Bush shot back the next day. "That's the rhetoric of the past. That's...class warfare." For that matter, why was the whole Democratic spectacle so, well, democratic? Every interest...
...what he expects others to be. He's asking voters to buy him more than any agenda. A "uniter, not a divider," he crows over his warm working relationships with Democrats in the Texas legislature. He keeps his distance from congressional Republicans because they're all so nasty and partisan up there in Washington, and he vows to bring civility to the place. His Big Tent will be the biggest ever. Why should a little disagreement over abortion make us all tense and angry with one another? The ideology-lite candidate, Bush was able to change from compassionate conservative...
...balances with a spin-heavy Cheney piece, in which Cheney "acknowledged in an interview that House Republicans bore some responsibility for the 'partisan bickering and backbiting' in Washington that he criticizes in his speeches." That was very triangular...
...Bronco on his dusty ranch outside Waco; or a candid moment at home when he and his wife Laura share a laugh at his expense, the point will be the same: that Bush, with his sunny optimism and persuasive charm, is the antidote to eight years of duplicity and partisan bickering in Washington...
...could include Russia as a cost-sharing partner. Even in a Congress raised on pork, such seeming make-work did not go down easily. In June 1993, Roemer introduced an amendment to cut off station funding. The measure failed, but only by a whisker, 216 to 215. In a partisan Congress, a one-vote margin is a tenuous thing, and in order to widen the gap, NASA turned to a time-tested budgetary strategy, spreading the wealth...