Word: bipartisanism
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...lifelong politico and son of the first female mayor of Austin, Texas, McClellan joined the Bush team in 1999. At the time, he believed the bipartisan Texas governor might be "a leader who could make us believe...[that] we could change the destructive dynamic that dominated [Washington]." He tried his best to brush aside anything that might contradict that belief. Yet during the 2000 campaign, he was startled at Bush's ability at self-deception. When questions arose about whether the candidate had ever used cocaine in his past, Bush tells McClellan that he just doesn't remember...
...insurance sponsored by none other than Kennedy. And that's just one of nearly a dozen bills on his plate as chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, fondly known as the HELP committee. Other Kennedy bills pending before the committee or the full Senate include bipartisan legislation to modernize medical records; the reauthorization of both the Higher Education Act and No Child Left Behind; mental health parity legislation; a bill to ensure fair pay to women, which was defeated three weeks ago but which Kennedy swore on the floor to bring back; and a bipartisan bill...
...Indeed, almost every bipartisan bill in the last seven years has had Kennedy's signature on it, from No Child Left Behind and the Medicare Prescription Drug Program, to pension reform and a collective bargaining bill for first responders passed by the Senate just last week. Kennedy's legislative belief has always been to "never let the perfect be the enemy of the good," as he's said on many occasions. Even with bills that had major flaws, such as immigration reform, he believed it was better to pass something and then work to fix it later...
...makes sense for Recount to be Dem-centric. True, Florida was bipartisan in feeding cynicism about institutions--politics, the courts, the media. (There's a montage of the networks calling the state for Gore, then Bush, then no one.) But it had the greatest effect on the Democratic psyche, as will happen after you lose an election. (My apologies for writing "lose." And "election...
...Even the Undergraduate Council (UC), in response to bipartisan lobbying from both the Republican Club and the College Democrats, recently resolved that many University-imposed inconveniences on ROTC should be lifted—with the Democrat-sponsored proviso, of course, that DADT is despicable and violates Harvard’s anti-discrimination policy...