Word: partisans
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...candidate, and Nancy L. Johnson ’57, a former Republican congresswoman from Connecticut who lost her seat this November after serving for more than two decades. While it was a lean year for Republicans nationwide, the results of the election turned into a windfall for the non-partisan Institute of Politics. “Because this was a year that the Democrats did very well, we had an opportunity to attract a number of high-profile Republican candidates,” said Jeanne Shaheen, the institute’s director and a former New Hampshire governor who herself...
...they want to enforce. And that doesn't seem like the most promising way to usher them into office. The oath sworn by public servants, starting with the President of the United States, is the closest thing to a sacred act of all our democratic traditions. Candidates may be partisan brawlers when they run for office; campaigning is a contact sport that you play to win or not at all. But once elected, they're born again as servants of all the people, and taking the oath is an act of both exaltation and submission; we're giving you this...
...White House counsel Fred Fielding to the job he held in the Reagan Administration signaled to Capitol Hill that the Administration would not simply stonewall in the face of subpoenas and investigations. Fielding will take a tough stance in some negotiations and be flexible in others. "He's highly partisan but highly regarded," an official said...
...Here's the problem: the person who did most of the interfering, arguably, was al-Maliki himself. Although he nominally heads an all-party, national unity government, al-Maliki is a Shi'ite partisan, and he has pursued a blatantly sectarian course in the eight months since he was sworn in, antagonizing Sunnis and allowing Shi'ite militias to run amok. His main political backing comes from Moqtada al-Sadr, the firebrand leader of the most dangerous militia, the Mahdi Army. In his speeches, al-Maliki routinely promises to deal firmly with the militias, but in practice, he has always...
...think the tyrant got a raw deal. His trial, though flawed and highly compromised by violence, ultimately resulted in a just verdict supported by the evidence. The trouble is that because the court that tried Saddam was set up by the occupying power and run by a partisan Shi'ite government, few Sunnis believed the proceedings were legitimate, or accepted the court's verdict as impartial. And that was before the ghastly scenes of last Saturday morning. Now you'd be lucky to find a Sunni willing to concede he should have been tried...