Word: bipartisanism
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...that wryly skewered pols from both sides of the aisle, Bill Strauss was a policy expert and adviser on serious matters of the Senate. Then at a Memorial Day party in 1981, a group of Beltway revelers broke into silly ad-lib ditties about the Reagan Administration, and the bipartisan Capitol Steps was born. Since 1984, when Strauss took the troupe professional, it has become a $3 million-a-year business, recording 29 albums and touring widely. Among its repertoire: My Momma Told Me: You Better Sleep Around (inspired by Monica Lewinsky); The Angina Monologues (Dick Cheney) and The Sound...
...like-minded souls, including William Cohen, the former Republican Senator who served as Bill Clinton's Secretary of Defense, and Chuck Hagel, the maverick GOP Senator from Nebraska who plans to leave office after this year. The meeting's purpose: to urge the major party candidates to embrace bipartisan governance...
...message to its members this week, the National Rifle Association said, "The NRA initiated and worked closely with Senator Crapo on this letter and appreciates his bipartisan effort.... We have been working for nearly five years to change this policy and applaud the strong Senate support for this policy change expressed in this letter." Among the other Senators whose signatures appear on the letter: Republicans Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, John McCain of Arizona and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska; and Democrats Tim Johnson of South Dakota, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Ben Nelson of Nebraska...
...think the private sector, by its nature, is going to be more flexible, more efficient, more creative. But there's an important role for government to play. A good example of this is on the federal level was back in the '90s, when welfare reform was done as a bipartisan initiative. From the conservative perspective, there was an expectation that you should work, you should go get an education, you have responsibilities. But from a more liberal perspective, I think it was also fair to say that if you do those things then society will help you. If you need...
...mainstream intellectual currents. Partly, this position needs to be understood as a rejection of the priorities of American Empire: When a resource-rich client economy jumps from the neoliberal bandwagon, as Venezuela under Chavez has done, it should be unsurprising that it becomes a cause for bipartisan concern. This past July, for example, Obama found himself in hot water for expressing his willingness, if elected, to sit down and meet with Chavez. Hilary excoriated his naiveté, The Nation blogged a lament to his lack of “sophistication” in matters of foreign policy, and Edwards flubbed...