Word: bipartisanism
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Opportunity is coming his way again. As Jim Wright staggers and falls, Foley is being heaped with bipartisan endorsements as the next Speaker of the House and second in line for the presidency. Explains Wyoming Republican Senator Alan Simpson: "Cream rises...
...unanimous bipartisan ethics committee report proves devastating. -- The U.S.S. Iowa explosion renews debate about the usefulness -- if any -- of battleships...
...bipartisan panel prepares to accuse him of violating congressional rules, the Speaker and his Democratic...
...occasions." But that was before George Bush and a phalanx of congressional leaders strolled into the Rose Garden last Friday morning to announce that they had hammered out the 1990 budget concordat. Now, in updated fashion, Rose Garden rubbish can also be defined as "the unveiling of a cynical, bipartisan arrangement to avoid difficult decisions on the deficit through the use of artful arithmetic, Panglossian projections and other green-eyeshade gimmickry...
...fair, there was little of the shamelessly self-congratulatory rhetoric that normally consecrates such empty agreements. The President called the budget pact a "first, manageable step" taken "in a constructive, bipartisan spirit." The Democrats reflected mild embarrassment over the ease with which they had capitulated to Bush's no-new-taxes pledge, something close to the Administration's defense-spending target and budget chief Richard Darman's strategy of forcing Congress to make the fiscally necessary but unpopular cuts in domestic programs. "This is not a heroic agreement," said House Speaker Jim Wright, putting it mildly. And Senate Majority Leader...