Word: partisan
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...miles offshore, is widely viewed as a concession by congressional Democrats to the Republican minority during an important election year in which gasoline prices skyrocket and the economy continues to stagger. While the pinched wallets of gas-guzzling Americans has sparked a political showdown over offshore drilling, the partisan warfare has unfortunately obscured a larger, more serious issue—the need for a comprehensive energy security policy. Fortunately, the Democratic majority has made a crucial strategic decision to rise above the partisan fracas and actually begin constructing a cohesive and sensible energy policy for years to come. While...
Over the weekend, leaders in Washington reached a tentative agreement on a government rescue strategy for the fraught U.S. economy. After intense, partisan negotiations, the core proposal of Secretary of the Treasury Henry M. Paulson’s original $700 billion bailout plan remains largely intact. Originally conceived and announced last week amid unprecedented U.S. bank failure and market turmoil, the bailout plan will appear in front of the House of Representatives this morning. The aim of the Paulson proposal, if passed, will be to inject liquidity into the stagnant credit markets, which must be greased in order to prevent...
Indeed, McCain’s involvement has only worsened the situation—which doesn’t exactly need the extra obstacles. In this case, presidential politics has proven a poison in an environment that has so far featured some miraculous bipartisanship. America has seen partisan bickering get in the way of real issues before. The current debate has no place in Washington; instead, bring it to Mississippi...
...Instead, as skeptics had predicted, the process is getting bogged down by a host of partisan fears: fear that one candidate could be perceived as breaking the logjam and saving the country from financial ruin, fear that one party could be blamed for passing a costly government bailout of fat cats on Wall Street, and fear of who might be blamed if nothing is done. "I'm not clear that in a very difficult situation like this that doing things in the spotlight and injecting presidential politics is necessarily useful," Obama told reporters Thursday...
...this what they mean by putting an end to partisan bickering? Reaching across the aisle to share focus groups? The lifeblood of the world's largest economy was clotting, but the men who would be President answered with shared simplifications: muttered prayers to the god of oversight, an idle hope that taxpayers might awaken one day to a windfall, and the timeless amusement of humble millionaires bashing arrogant millionaires on behalf of folks who may never breathe debt-free...