Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republican rout have been wounded. The Christian Coalition still plans to distribute 45 million voter guides in 100,000 churches. But a suit by the Federal Election Commission that accuses the coalition of working in cahoots with the G.O.P. has forced the coalition to make its flyers less obviously partisan...
Despite bi-partisan approval of these measures, legislators on both sides of the aisle accuse the other party of supporting them in order to pander to voters...
...artificial pleasantness that pervades the debates is an attempt to respond to the American public's distaste for the partisan bickering that is so common in Washington. Also, both presidential candidates are concerned with overcoming the negative facets of their images. Bob Dole is trying to shed his reputation as a grouchy old hatchet man, and Bill Clinton is still seeking to appear statesmanlike and presidential, above the scandals of Paula Jones, Whitewater and Filegate...
...files scandal. His remarks prompted Clinton deputy campaign manager Ann Lewis to say, "I guess this means the era of civility lasted a day and a half." Meanwhile, more bad news descended on the Dole camp with staunch Republican Pat Robertson beginning to sound like a partisan Democrat. Last month he told the Christian Coalition's annual conference that only a "miracle from Almighty God" could save Bob Dole's presidential bid. On Tuesday, he was openly predicting a blowout in Clinton's favor. Couple this with a performance in Sunday's debate that won Dole a jump in favorable...
...that moment two floors below, a bipartisan group of Congressmen--two Democrats, two Republicans--was deciding there might be a pretty good case to be made against Gingrich. After weeks of partisan squabbling in Congress, the investigative subcommittee of the House ethics committee voted unanimously to expand its two-year probe of the Speaker. Soon after, the full 10-member committee seconded the decision. Of the four new charges they decided to pursue, the most serious one asks whether the Speaker gave investigators "accurate, reliable and complete information"--meaning, did he lie to them?--about the tangled links between...