Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After the majority bulldozed the minority on Thursday, the chamber broke into an unexpected round of arm nuzzling and shoulder butting across the partisan divide, even as it seemed to widen. Could they have been faking how far apart they really were to please their respective constituencies? Afterward, Lott didn't gloat. Daschle didn't go nuclear. Tom Harkin didn't pout. The Senators stampeded to the airport, heading home or to the Super Bowl in Miami. There, at least, the outcome was still...
Last week should have been a bad one for Tom Daschle. The Senate minority leader watched his party get flattened by the Republicans on five crucial impeachment votes. According to the partisan handbook that has so often held sway over these proceedings, Daschle's final defeat--when the G.O.P. rammed through its road map for the next week--should have sent him to the microphones. There he should have struck an aggrieved pose and bloviated freely, blaming the vindictive Republicans for shattering Senate comity in their hell-bent effort to destroy the President, or some such transgression. But instead...
Democrats oppose the measure as unconstitutional: since it could pass with a simple majority, they see it as a backdoor way of convicting but not removing Clinton, without reaching the constitutional threshold of a two-thirds majority. To block such a measure, Daschle and the Democrats are sharpening their partisan shivs, threatening a string of amendments that would tie up the Senate chamber indefinitely. They could, says Daschle, submit the President's budget as an amendment and ask the clerk to read...
...tapes. Licking its wounds, the White House then asked to be notified in advance which segments the House managers were planning to use in Saturday's highlight film -- that motion failed as well, with Democrats back together in a losing effort. This trial is still very much a partisan affair -- but it seems there are a few more parties than we thought...
...Clinton," says Flynt. He stresses, however, that he might be more inclined to cough up new dirt if the Senate decides to reach a "finding of fact" -- a declaration that Clinton committed perjury or obstruction of justice, even if the President is not removed from office. "The more partisan it gets, the more I feel the urge to release material...