Word: bipartisanism
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...fall, Clinton hadn't wanted to risk losing the prescription-drug issue to Republicans by blocking the bipartisan plan. But the election is over - by week's end Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson will be George W. Bush's new secretary of health and human services, and Clinton just left him a message: bipartisan doesn't always mean better...
Daschle is keeping an eye on Breaux, who is trying to forge a bipartisan voting bloc called the Senate Centrist Coalition, one of many moderate groups now springing up like mushrooms after a Florida rain. Breaux could pose a threat to Daschle's Democratic unity and to his status as the ultimate go-to Democrat in the Senate--a role Daschle has no intention of relinquishing. "Unless President-elect Bush can develop a working relationship with Tom, he's not going to get a lot out of the Democrats," says New Mexico Democratic Senator Jeff Bingaman. That's the message...
...Thompson is the original conservative-pragmatist hero, a long-running Wisconsin governor who dazzles on welfare reform and won't budge on his pro-life position. This is the guy who started the fashion that allowed a bipartisan-minded GOP governor to dodge the stench of Tom DeLay, and Bush owes him. Even liberals can't help but like him a little bit, and the religious right knows the abortion issue won't get any worse for them with him in charge. At Thompson's request, the announcement will be made after the holidays, but it looks like a lock...
...decked with holly, and in public Bush sounded increasingly gracious. He felt Gore's pain, he said; he unveiled a transition slogan--"Bringing America Together"; his team took care to drop names of Democrats he might name to a Cabinet, what programs had the best chance of passage through bipartisan seas...
...matter who wins, the focus will be on measures that have enjoyed bipartisan support. The main ones: reducing the estate tax, eliminating the marriage penalty, expanding IRA and 401(k)-plan savings. Further down the list is fixing the horribly crafted alternative minimum...