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Whereas Bush prided himself on building bipartisan coalitions in Texas, he has done little to stop G.O.P. congressional leaders in Washington from all but shutting out Democrats from the negotiating process--depriving them of any say, or credit, for such crucial legislation as a Medicare prescription-drug benefit and an energy-policy overhaul. At one point, House Ways and Means Committee chairman Bill Thomas had his Democratic colleagues forcibly removed from a library by the police after they walked out of a hearing. In the Senate, Republicans and Democrats engaged in a 40-hour display of petulance over the confirming...
...when did he know it? Determining what intelligence was available to the White House in the weeks and months before Sept. 11, 2001, and how that intelligence was acted upon, is one of the most consequential tasks facing the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, the bipartisan congressional commission entrusted with the investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks. The pertinence of this question was only heightened when the White House admitted last year that an August 2001 Presidential Daily Brief (PDB)—a document the CIA presents daily to the President and his top aides?...
There is a grand, bipartisan New Hampshire tradition of truth-telling Jeremiahs taking the state by storm, from Estes Kefauver in 1952 to John McCain in 2000, but Lieberman seems to be a classic case of honor without profit. For one thing, Howard Dean locked up the maverick vote with his timely opposition to the war. For another, Lieberman's belief that removing Saddam Hussein would start a benign chain of events in the region seems imprudent now, given the deteriorating situation on the ground in Iraq. But there's something else about Lieberman--a sweet, soft, caramel quality--that...
...normally collegial, bipartisan work of the Senate Intelligence Committee ground to a standstill last week in an unusual public spat over whether the panel should determine whether blame for poor prewar intelligence in Iraq lies with the CIA - or the White House...
...listen to Rush Limbaugh and Dr. Laura every afternoon just to know what the other side believes,” Brady said. “We just need to maintain a reasonable, common sense tone to gain bipartisan support...