Word: bipartisanism
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Ronald Reagan was supposed to focus his commencement address at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., on the Moscow summit. Instead he talked almost entirely about drugs. The President attempted to drain some political emotion from the subject by calling for a bipartisan commission to study what could be done (ignoring the fact that antidrug programs already enjoy wide bipartisan support in Congress). Bush, meanwhile, toured a crack den in Los Angeles that had been closed by police raids and tried to sound tougher on drugs than anybody else -- including his chief...
Notified at the last minute about the new American proposal, advocates of Midgetman were furious. They included four outsiders whose backing was important if the Administration was going to maintain bipartisan support for its defense policies: Brent Scowcroft, a former National Security Adviser in the Ford Administration; Democratic Senators Sam Nunn and Albert Gore Jr.; and Democratic Congressman Les Aspin. All had been supporting Midgetman for three years, arguing that it had the twin virtues of being harder for the other side to hit, since it was mobile, and less threatening as a first-strike weapon, since...
...emerged from the session expressing concern over duty-free imports of ethanol from the Caribbean and saying "what I needed was the president's assurance that the Administration was going to introduce another bipartisan bill that could be quickly passed by the Congress and signed...
...party's over! Time to tighten our belts, America. With a little bipartisan compromise and self-sacrifice, we can bring down the deficits," say Wall Street's investment bankers and stock brokers...
...ballooning federal deficit must be brought under control to restore confidence in the markets and to ensure our economic future, argues Former Secretary of Commerce Peter G. Peterson and a host of corporate moguls and other well-heeled supporters in their purportedly bipartisan, equitable plan to slash the deficit and pay for the fiscal excesses of the Reagan...