Word: partisans
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...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...
...Governor Bush joined with the isolationist, partisan Republican majority in Congress in opposing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty," Gore said. "He chose politics over principle...
...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...
...this pivotal election year, when candidates across the land are scurrying to find the Third Way between traditional partisan platforms, have politicos of all stripes embraced the traditionally liberal cause of government intervention into making prescription drugs more affordable? In the past month we've seen a handful of House Republicans champion plans for offering prescription drug aid to the elderly, and even George W. Bush and Al Gore have sparred over which of them will better serve America's seniors in their most desperate hours. In fact, this is the issue on which Gore's been willing...
...long barren waste of months stretches before us between now and November. I am not sure the American people can endure it. We are saturated. The partisan noise over Elian Gonzalez and the Reno raid has driven us almost to the edge of mental illness (and maybe bankruptcy - who is paying for all of this opulent security, by the way, and the plantation hideaway, and the little playmates being shipped up from Cuba, and the endless pizza eaten by the highest officials of the land?) That is enough. Let not the politicians (to use Dylan Thomas' words) "blaspheme down...