Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...national media has decried the increases for years, and now Washington officials from the White House and Congress might do something about them. At the end of June, President Clinton signed a law to create a bi-partisan commission to study the rising cost of attending college across the nation...
Trumbull, a pro-spanking partisan, adds that he favors corporal punishment only as a last resort, after putting a child on time out--a few minutes of inactivity--then warning him or her that the next miscue will bring a whack. Still, he says, punishment should be limited to one or two mild slaps on the buttocks. His views are widely shared. More than two-thirds of pediatricians in recent polls approved parental spanking in certain situations...
Like maladjusted Boy Scouts, the Republicans in Congress continue to claim pious motives while frittering away the public's trust and time with self-entertaining political mischief. Instead of a legitimate investigation into campaign-finance abuses [NATION, July 21], Senator Fred Thompson presents a partisan sideshow. Rather than the noble elephant, the Republicans' symbol should be the dog and pony, to reflect the type of act G.O.P members are giving us. MICHAEL GREENE Wichita, Kans...
...best defense is a good offense. During the Nixon years, we saw the Republicans hunker down when they were being investigated. Now the Democrats are in the spotlight, they are taking the offensive. But these hearings are not just politics as usual, and they should not be made partisan, as Glenn has tried to do. We must let Congress freely investigate questionable practices. I recall as a child watching TV and seeing Glenn in space. I have respected him most of my adult life, but what I have seen over the past few weeks makes me think he left something...
...their message out. Their "Catalog Of GOP Campaign Finance Abuses" is a 13,000-word compendium of references to GOP abuses in newspaper and magazine articles. It's their own Web version of "I know you are but what am I?" While the page is of course partisan, the Dems do have a point. Only 24 of the 183 subpoenas issued by the Thompson committee target Democrats. The inquiry entirely misses one of the most prominent targets, Haley Barbour, the former chief of the Republican Party who's been accused of wrongdoing, since Thompson has limited his inquiry...