Word: bipartisanism
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...housemates dubbed their townhouse at 3614 T Street “The Zoo,” but both presidents said bipartisan cohabitation is less volatile than others expected. (Schmidt says his co-workers at the United Food & Commercial Workers Union briefly worried that he was a mole...
...Last week, he strongly criticized a proposal, made by a bipartisan commission led by Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker, to require photo ID for people to vote. Obama worried that the measure might stop poor people who don?t have driver's licenses from voting. Then, he headed to the Senate floor to declare his opposition to John Roberts?s appointment as chief justice, citing his concerns about how Roberts would vote on civil rights and abortion...
...Bush handled Katrina, of course. Indeed, during Bush?s presidency his policy has not been to visit the site of a disaster until well after the storm had passed. The president doesn?t want to get in the way, aides would say. But that was before Katrina and the bipartisan attacks on the federal response to the storm. Now the president is doing everything he can to show he?s on top of the situation. But it may be the case that his actions have an undesired effect-making him look too cloying and calculating. And, of course, the angry...
...exactly this ambiguity, however, that has split many adamant conservatives and liberals. The editorial pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post, both bastions of the liberal elite, were noticeably divergent, with the former advocating senators to vote against Roberts and the latter calling for a large bipartisan confirmation. Likewise, some conservatives are reluctant to endorse a nominee that has said his decisions will largely follow judicial precedent, leaving conservative sores like Roe vs. Wade intact...
We’ve tried to dig the dirt, but our nails are still clean. If Judge Roberts abides by what he proclaims to be his beliefs, partisanship ought to remain on the sidelines, and a large bipartisan vote in his favor should commence...