Word: bipartisanism
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...Bing Crosby during a visit to California. It was a humiliation that sent Sinatra rightward, into the arms of Nixon, then Reagan, which is where a lot of his audience was going in any case. Years had to pass before he could re-emerge entirely as a lodestar of bipartisan style. "I am," he once said, "a thing of beauty." It was a complicated beauty, but he had a point...
Unable to get another special prosecutor to investigate President Clinton, Newt Gingrich will settle for the next best thing: A House committee. The Speaker said he'd seek (and likely get) a bipartisan panel to look into whether the President's insatiable need for cash prompted the White House to promote the export of classified missile technology to China. Both the White House and Loral, the U.S. aerospace contractor that worked with China, say they didn't give the Chinese any information they couldn't obtain by reading the latest edition of Janes...
...Trent Lott, meanwhile, was in his usual spoiler's role; his proposal to scrap price supports for tobacco farmers and replace them with a buyout program drew snipes from Democrats, who accused Lott of bursting the bipartisan bubble the bill had enjoyed thus far. Responded Lott: "If you don't want us to try to find a way to deal with children smoking and drug abuse by children . . . go right ahead." The upshot: this could take a while...
...public to be a great candidate for President but equally presumed to be unable to get his party's nomination. Senator Fred Thompson was on the short list of presidential candidates until the G.O.P. club turned on him for supporting McCain's bill and trying to hold bipartisan hearings. The honest-to-a-fault Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan became a quirky elder statesman while still a young man. Colin Powell, he won't do what it takes...
...Some bipartisan support has begun to emerge for proposals that move us toward a fully-funded, privatized system. Unfortunately, defenders of the status quo have promulgated a series of myths that undermine efforts to reform the current system...