Word: bipartisanism
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...basic principles of the Democratic party are still sound. The election does not give the Republicans a mandate to reverse 50 years of bipartisan support for social programs," Eidenberg said...
...charged with operating it. And perhaps their biggest failure lately has been the inability to formulate a coherent set of national priorities. The result: enactment of muddled programs because there are no clear objectives. Democratic Congressman Richard Boiling of Missouri, who hopes to establish later this year a bipartisan blue-ribbon committee on reorganization of the Government, believes that a new national consensus has been needed ever since the basic objectives and priorities began to blur about 15 years ago. That was the time, at the height of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society flourishes, when the polls began showing...
...dinner dance -standard Reagan black tie, 100 guests, a tab running well into five figures-a few enterprising White House staffers devised a surprise of their own for the President's 70th birthday. They sprang it in the Oval Office, just as Reagan was about to receive a bipartisan group of Congressmen. House Speaker Tip O'Neill, Senator Paul Laxalt and Representatives Jim Wright and Robert Michel suddenly found themselves making their entrance with Nancy Reagan and a giant cake standing 8 ft. tall on its platform. "I'd like to light it," said Nancy...
...seems unlikely, however, that the Democratic Party will accept the new President's offer to form a bipartisan coalition of "national unity." One reason: D.P. Leader Paul Ssemogerere, 48, was once imprisoned by Obote. Disruptive opposition could spell disaster. Says one envoy based in Uganda: "If Obote runs into a lot of trouble, he probably will revert to type." That would mean going back to the days when Obote suspended the constitution, clapped thousands of opponents in jail without trial and ruled in such a high-handed way the people originally danced in the streets when Amin ousted...
Last summer the Senate offered a compromise bill, sponsored chiefly by Democrats Henry Jackson of Washington and Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts. Jackson declared: "The bill is balanced, the product of bipartisan effort. All the groups are a little bit mad, which proves that we were honest judges." Indeed, Gravel tried to filibuster the bill, but his Senate colleagues passed a cloture vote that shut off debate. When the bill passed, Jackson sent it along to the House with the warning: "It's that or nothing." Angered by what they considered to be strong-arm tactics, Udall and his supporters...