Word: bipartisanism
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...career politician," he said. "I have training in the scientific method. I will gather together the best ideas of all parties. Together we can rise above bipartisan gridlock...
...these catastrophes make Bush's bragging about his foreign policy experience laughable. He has claimed credit for bringing the Cold War to a successful end, ignoring that it was Ronald Reagan who presided over (and, with all his militarism, almost overturned) the end of the bipartisan effort to defeat communism. And Bush not only dismisses the contributions of Democrats (the ones who began containment), he shamelessly ignores the people of Eastern Europe, whose defiance of despotism was an important ingredient in communism's fall...
...bipartisan national commission on presidential debates recommended a single moderator format earlier this year, but the Bush campaign rejected the arrangement...
...KNEW SOMETHING HAD TO give when George Bush started arguing with a 6- ft.chicken. For nearly a month, the President's men had been stiff-arming the dates and format proposed by a bipartisan debate commission and endorsed by Bill Clinton. The challenger was scoring political points by declaring that his opponent was afraid to face him man-to-man. Bush's charges of tax-and- spend liberalism, like his aggressive attacks on Clinton's draft record, were unable to dent the Democrat's double-digit lead in the polls. But when the Clinton forces began infiltrating Bush rallies with...
DESPITE THEIR EAGERNESS TO CLEAR OUT OF Washington for the campaign trail, House and Senate Democrats paused for a moment to put George Bush on the defensive. A bipartisan majority approved the family- and medical-leave bill, which would require companies with 50 or more employees to grant 12 weeks of unpaid leave for workers to care for new babies or sick relatives. Democrats denied they had revived the bill to push the President into a corner with the charge that he had deserted his family values theme. In issuing his veto, Bush proposed an alternative that would provide...