Word: bipartisanism
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...response to criticism of this stance, Goffman promised a more bipartisan future for the show, including seeing more of “Friends’” Matthew Perry as a Republican attorney. Perhaps problematic for these attempts to balance party coverage more evenly, Goffman admitted to being the only registered Republican working on the show...
...truism about the President is that he is steady, clear, reliable, someone who knows what he believes and sticks with what he knows. The truth about him is more perplexing. He campaigned as a bipartisan conciliator; yet under his presidency, the U.S. has become even more culturally and politically bifurcated. He promised a foreign policy based on humility and contempt for nation building; but his Administration has embarked on the most ambitious nation-building project since World War II. He pledged centrist, inclusive conservatism, and yet he has supported a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage and has courted...
Sure, it’s better to give tax cuts to people who can use them than to the ultra-rich. But our bipartisan mania for tax-slashing has real costs. In order to rein in the deficit and cut taxes simultaneously, Kerry is proposing a total spending cap on discretionary spending outside of defense and education (about 20 percent of the federal budget), instead of allowing government expenditure to remain at a stable proportion of GDP, growing at the same rate as the economy. But rising production and consumption place rising demands on our national infrastructure, which needs...
...House of Representatives is poised to pass a bipartisan proposal that will significantly increase the cost of going to college. This proposal would raise the amount of interest students pay on their debt, which averages $17,000 upon graduation. A report by the Congressional Research Service, which has not yet been released, estimates the extra cost per student would amount to between $3,100 and $5,500 for 10- and 15-year loans respectively...
...after again spending blood and huge treasure we will have to get out of Iraq without leaving a stable democratic government and the Middle East transformed--at least not in the way the Administration expected. As uncertainty rises in the U.S. about what we are doing in Iraq, the bipartisan consensus insists that we must "stay the course" because failure to do so will have "catastrophic" consequences for the U.S. and Iraq...