Word: partisans
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...story on the legal and political storm over the disclosure of a CIA officer's identity and Karl Rove's involvement drew mail from readers who expressed their dismay at the lengths to which the White House will go to discredit critics. Others dismissed the affair as a partisan attack on President Bush's key strategist...
...point. As Bochco promises, there is no editorializing beyond the standard war-is-hell variety. (There have been far more pointed comments on the war on FX's big-network brother, Fox. Arrested Development has satirized the war repeatedly, while 24 explored wartime torture in excruciating detail.) Any partisan objections will probably have to do with what it omits: for doves, big-picture considerations like the phantom WMD; for hawks, any attention to good news from Iraq...
...vacuum of facts, partisans on both sides headed straight for their armories; it felt like five years of political warfare in concentrated form. Naturally it would feature Rove, as brass-knuckled a player as has walked onstage in a generation. But in addition there was John Kerry, promoting a Fire Rove petition on his website. There was Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman declaring that it was not Plame or Wilson but Rove who was the victim of "blatant partisan political attacks." There was White House spokesman Scott McClellan, who had once called the notion that Rove was involved "ridiculous...
...Rather, I pledged to appoint a woman who meets the very high standards I demand of all court appointees."... To be sure, Reagan's announcement that he intended to elevate [Sandra Day] O'Connor to the highest U.S. Government post ever held by a woman had its roots in partisan politics. Mainly because he had been portrayed by Jimmy Carter as a man who might blunder the nation into war, Reagan had lacked strong support among women in last year's campaign. --TIME, July...
...important. In pursuit of that goal, however, the public seems to be on a different track from the President. If further spending reductions are to be made, more people (43%) want military spending reduced than want social spending cut (31%). Opinion on that issue is sharply divided along partisan lines. Democrats and independents want military spending cut before social spending by 2 to 1; Republicans prefer social cuts by 43% to 26%. Fifty-three percent of those polled believe that further military cuts can be made without jeopardizing national security; here Reagan seems to be out of step with...