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...DREAM Act has become tangled in this politicized debate, despite a solid base of bipartisan support. “The real political issue is that both sides are using the DREAM Act to hold the other side hostage,” Schumacher-Matos says. Proponents of more progressive immigration policies want to leverage the bill’s bipartisan support to pull through comprehensive reform, while their opponents will support the DREAM Act only in exchange for stricter enforcement. There are also those who reject amnesty in any form...
...hasn’t this bipartisan, common sense reform been passed into law? Because Democrats in Congress refuse to acknowledge a problem exists and insist on preserving the “sanctity” of the Social Security system, which is code for wanting the problem to be dealt with by tax increases alone. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) called the issue a crisis “manufactured” by the Bush administration and said Social Security will be safe for “50 years,” ignoring the fact that the system will pay out more this...
...publicly challenged the President's moves over the past year and increasingly see him as ideologically inconsistent. The biggest complaint has been Sarkozy's "opening" policy of extending Cabinet positions and élite administrative appointments to officials on the left. The President says he is trying to take a bipartisan approach, but right-wingers grouse that he is giving opponents spots they want for themselves. Conservatives have also resisted Sarkozy's ecology-minded tax on carbon emissions and his radical reform of local governing bodies...
...board, which changes with each presidency, is comprised of 11 members, six of which can be members of the current administration’s party. “The board strives to be a bipartisan body that works by consensus,” Barr said...
Against the strong wind of public opinion, Congressional Democrats passed a massive government takeover of health care in America on Sunday. This slap in the American people’s face is all the more egregious because of the opportunity the Democrats had to pass truly landmark, bipartisan legislation under allegedly “post-partisan” leadership from President Obama. Republicans and Democrats alike agree that health care is too expensive, and that, in the absence of reform, budgetary realities of Medicare and Medicaid will force harsh fiscal choices...