Word: bipartisanism
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...can’t they do all of this without passing campaign finance legislation? If the solutions our country needs are so blindingly obvious, why can’t McCain go ahead and assemble this bipartisan coalition of the good and the just? Corruption, of course...
...body has bucked its leadership and defied the expectation that a session so divided would produce only gridlock. Through compromises reached between reasonable members of opposing parties, the public’s demand for reform was translated into effective legislation. The result of this remarkable effort is a fair, bipartisan bill that will pave the way for more such open debates, instead of superfluous party-line votes and prepared statements that members read into the record to serve as “receipts” for the donations of wealthy individuals, unions, and corporations...
...reform. Any representative who abandons the bill as soon as it has a good chance of passing—or any president who vetoes a once-in-a-decade chance at reform—will not be forgiven lightly. McCain-Feingold has gained both the popular and the bipartisan support that it needs to constitute a strong foundation for reform. Both the House and President Bush would be wise to build on, not tear down, that foundation...
...Jeffords and the other itchy GOP moderates - including McCain - all it needs is Dick Cheney to break the tie and the Democrats will find that their $60 billion gambit just got added on to the top of Bush's serving. But Bush would still prefer this to be a bipartisan-smelling victory, and he'll need to give up more than Nelson's farm programs for that. Maybe the estate tax repeal, maybe the reduction in the top income-tax bracket, maybe the trigger...
...Congress, if the reliable Senate backstop falls, DeLay is vowing to step into the Mitch McConnell role and do whatever it takes to stop the House from meeting McCain halfway. Shame, after years of high-pitched support, may keep Senate Democrats in line, but the wider (and more anonymous) bipartisan coalition that backs the ban in the House could prove to be vaporous. Campaign finance reform has always attracted the faux Quixotes in droves...