Word: bipartisanism
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...Medicare by stealth," he tells residents of old-age homes, noting that the President has proposed a hike in some Medicare premiums from $14 to $40 a month. He accuses Reagan of slicing $80 billion out of future Social Security benefits without conceding that this was part of a bipartisan package to save the program from bankruptcy...
...other move that is gaining widespread bipartisan support is the idea of "merit pay," or encouraging good teachers by dangling before them possible salary increases. Reagan and several of the Democratic eight have supported the proposal in general, though no one has proposed anything specific...
Then the President met with congressional Republicans and urged them to assail the Democrats as the high-tax party. Democrats, for their part, agreed reluctantly to join a budget-cutting conference while gloomily predicting that Reagan was trying to inveigle them into giving a bipartisan blessing to gargantuan deficits, or set them up as scapegoats, or both. As a kind of grace note to the babble, one of the President's top economic advisers, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, derided the analysis of another, Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Martin Feldstein, as ivory-tower dreaming. Said Regan, once chief...
Reagan's principal message was that the U.S., prospering again economically and enjoying rebuilt military strength, is experiencing a rebirth of pride and hope. "Bipartisan cooperation," presumably from a Congress that had passed most of the Administration's essential legislation, he said, had stopped "a long decline that had drained this nation's spirit and eroded its health." Now, he said, the U.S. is "looking to the '80s with courage, confidence and hope...
...word bipartisan appeared seven times in the President's State of the Union address last week, but the decision to stress a new spirit of cooperation apparently did not reach the White House guards. When Tip O'Neill appeared at the Executive mansion on the day of the speech for a conference with the President, the gatekeepers would not let him in. The rotund, white-maned Speaker of the House had to fish around for some identification. O'Neill handled the unintentional rebuff amiably enough, but once he got inside, his Irish was up over an entirely...