Word: partisans
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...another speaker, however, that dished out the real partisan red meat. A protégé of Dr. King, the Rev. Joseph Lowery went so far as to bash both Bush’s foreign policy and his domestic agenda in one fell swoop, stating, “She deplored the terror inflicted by our smart bombs on missions way afar. We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there. But Coretta knew and we knew that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance…poverty abounds?...
...McCain's bipartisan task force. In a letter this week, the Arizona Senator blasted Obama. "I?m embarrassed to admit that after all these years in politics," McCain wrote, "I failed to interpret your previous assurances as typical rhetorical gloss routinely used in politics to make self-interested partisan posturing appear more noble." At a Senate hearing yesterday, Obama and McCain put aside their differences to push for lobbying reform proposals. McCain's bill would allow the Senate to vote to eliminate earmarks out of bills...
...Rudolph W. Giuliani in New York. In 1990, he was appointed the U.S. attorney for New Jersey by former President Bush and was the only U.S. attorney in the nation who was reappointed by President Clinton three years later. Chertoff developed a reputation for being more of a Republican partisan in the mid-1990s after he served as special counsel to the U.S. Senate Whitewater Committee that investigated a failed real estate deal involving the Clintons. Before becoming secretary of homeland security, Chertoff was appointed assistant attorney general for the criminal division and subsequently to an appellate judgeship in Philadelphia...
...venomous partisan rancor in Washington, the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) sorted out their differences, exchanging trash-talk and welt-raising projectiles in the first “Bipartisan Paintball Brawl.” Though The Crimson has already offered one perspective (“Partisans Clash in Paintball War,” 2/3/06), FM decided to evaluate the battle strategy of the warring factions. Fearless and well organized, the Republicans charged out of the gates with guns blazing, while the Democrats pursued a cautious strategy of hiding timidly behind defensive cover. “Democrats...
...eliminating a food assistance program for low-income seniors-though the Administration says it merely wants to move the Commodity Supplemental Food Program into the Food Stamps program. And some will question why there's $150 million in the budget to promote healthy marriages and fatherhood training. The partisan bickering is no different from any other traditional Washington spat-it's just that the stakes are a lot higher...