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...bottom line: after one year, the economic record is mixed. On the other hand, the political outlook may be more significant ... A pessimistic view is that politics will take on a [new] level of viciousness ... An optimistic view is that a sudden lurch towards constructive bipartisan politics combined with American resilience, ingenuity and entrepreneurship will pull...
...working on one right now. And I'm also going to sing a little Mozart. I love Puccini, but I'm going to do a little Mozart on this dual offering that Condoleezza Rice and I will be doing over the summer for our favorite charities. It's a bipartisan effort...
...let’s-keep-our-jobs” bill. With 70 Senators voting for the $15 billion legislation, including 13 Republicans, the verdict represented welcome progress for the stalled, embattled body. However, it would be a mistake to view the passage of this bill as a bipartisan victory. Along such lines, the media has covered Mass. Senator Scott Brown’s reach across the aisle to support the bill as though his actions were notable. However, voting in favor of such a relatively insignificant piece of legislation does not make Brown a maverick; rather, it highlights the unacceptably...
...those focused on health-care, immigration, climate change, “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” and financial regulation, to name a few. We encourage Brown to choose carefully in these upcoming votes and to carve out an identity as a bipartisan senator in the future. As a Republican representative from historically Democratic Massachusetts, he has unique potential to bridge the ideological divide, and we hope he uses the opportunity wisely...
Then, on Saturday, the Right’s newest frat boy took the stage. To cheers and applause, Glenn Beck offered the keynote address—a potpourri of anti-Obama vitriol, bipartisan criticism, and personal anecdotes. But as Professor Beck leapt from the podium to his beloved chalkboard, reading glasses perched low on his nose, he lambasted the calls for a return to a “Big Tent” party, asking sardonically, “What is this, a circus?” And in one sentence he did more damage than most speakers...