Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republican caucus late Thursday afternoon, some members argued for total war--a party-line vote to proceed however they chose. The Democrats were doing Clinton's bidding, they argued, and would never go along with a bipartisan deal; they were counting on a long trial to make Republicans look partisan and obsessed. The fear of a voter backlash was no reason to abandon principle. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, who won with just 49% of the vote in 1994, told the conference, "I'm up in 2000. And if you read the papers, I'm an endangered Republican species...
...Collins. "I've got to say something," she said. "This is wrong." They had just taken a historic oath, she reminded her colleagues--some of them still fingering the souvenir pens with which they signed the impeachment book. Did they really want to start the process with such a partisan move? She appealed to a sense of personal trust that has not dissolved completely; Senators still shake hands across the aisles. The mood in the room swept behind her as Republicans rose in agreement. Said Larry Craig of Idaho, a conservative: "If there's any chance of not having this...
President Clinton's impeachment has provided a useful education on the internecine workings of Washington. But one revelation transcends politics and touches on a truth even more depressing than partisan squabbling: Our elected officials and their staffs are illiterate...
...White House's tacit agreement not to call witnesses. He also needed assurances from Lieberman and Daschle that Clinton would not make a mockery of Lott's work by celebrating the Senate's turn to censure as a vindication of his behavior. In the wake of the House's partisan vote to impeach--and the polls showing the public siding overwhelmingly with Clinton--the early talk in the White House was more about combat than compromise. As a senior White House official put it, "There's a part of [Clinton's] mind that says a trial would be useful...
...media, the president has been impeached and the Senate is poised to begin a presidential trial for the second time in our history. The farce that began last January has sickened the nation: From the president's stone-faced lying on television to Kenneth W. Starr's viciously partisan inquisition to the sanctimonious hypocrisy of the Republican leadership, there are no heroes in this sorry episode in our nation's history...