Word: bipartisanism
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...this fire breather? It was Slade Gorton, the very same Washington Senator who just three weeks ago was making bipartisan music with Democrat Joe Lieberman. But now Gorton was bouncing off the walls of the radio-TV gallery like Mister Rogers on a caffeine binge. What had happened? Perhaps the normally temperate Gorton had simply been worn down by the marathon negotiations. Perhaps he wanted to be the first to trot out that overworked movie title. Or, perhaps, like so many others, he had been driven temporarily insane by full-frontal exposure to the case against Clinton...
...tossed lush, fragrant bouquets at the other side. "I appreciate very much Senator Lott's willingness to consider many of the concerns we had," he said of the majority leader, who had just skunked him in vote after vote. "We simply couldn't bring this matter to a successful bipartisan conclusion...
...keep up and is probably only going to make things worse if it finds you. Gordon Smith, the freshman Republican Senator from Oregon, is worried that a government engineered more than two centuries ago risks irrelevance in the Internet age. He and Democrat Ron Wyden held a series of bipartisan town meetings earlier this month, thinking they might be a good antidote to the bickering. But what Smith heard from voters surprised him. "I expected to be deluged with questions about the scandal," Smith said. "But it was the opposite. I got questions about everything but this...
...Republican caucus late Thursday afternoon, some members argued for total war--a party-line vote to proceed however they chose. The Democrats were doing Clinton's bidding, they argued, and would never go along with a bipartisan deal; they were counting on a long trial to make Republicans look partisan and obsessed. The fear of a voter backlash was no reason to abandon principle. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, who won with just 49% of the vote in 1994, told the conference, "I'm up in 2000. And if you read the papers, I'm an endangered Republican species...
TRENT LOTT G.O.P. leader herds 99 other Senate egos into bipartisan deal. And not a single hair out of place...