Word: partisans
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...Hillary's political-action committee. He opened by saying he wanted to make three points: first, that his absent wife, who was attending to the people's business down in Washington, has been "a really good Senator"; second, that he was "particularly proud" of her for bucking a partisan atmosphere to offer constructive solutions on energy, the environment, health care and education; and third ... well, his third point turned out to be about the "epic struggle" of his presidency. For the rest of Bill's 20-minute speech, his wife merited an individual mention only here and there. Everything else...
...Hillary has worked to take the partisan edge off her image, she has also underscored the biggest question voters have about her: What does she really believe in? A First Lady can pick and choose her issues, but as a Senator, Hillary has been forced to take stands in areas that go far beyond the health-care and family issues that Americans have long associated with her. Her voting pattern has tilted liberal, but in National Journal's ratings of the five Democratic Senators most often mentioned as presidential contenders, Hillary's record (more liberal than 80.5% of her Senate...
...wingnuts used Connecticut as a rationale for continuing to wave the bloody shirt of Islamist terrorism as a partisan bludgeon. Vice President Dick Cheney, the nation's wingnut in chief, actually said Lieberman's defeat would give aid and comfort to our terrorist "adversaries and al-Qaeda types." On the other side, Eli Pariser, the executive director of MoveOn.org and therefore, perhaps, the nation's blognut in chief, proposed the "death of triangulation"-that is, the end of Clintonian moderation-in a Washington Post Op-Ed piece and announced a return to ... well, the party's stupid excesses...
...easy, after six years of this bilge, to dwell on the Vice President's aura and miss the essential felony of the Bush White House-that it has tried to run a war without bipartisan support. Indeed, it has often attempted to use the war for partisan gain. To be sure, there is some grist to the Republican portrayal of Democrats as a bunch of wimpy peaceniks. All too often in the post-Vietnam past-the first Gulf War, for example-the default position of the Democratic Party has been to assume that any prospective use of U.S. military power...
...major issue in the primary race, which received national attention and was seen by many as a referendum on the direction of the Democratic party.Lieberman, vowing to run as an independent this fall, blamed Lamont for his polarizing partisanship throughout the campaign.“The old politics of partisan polarization won today,” the former presidential candidate told his supporters the night of his four percentage-point loss. “For the sake of our state, our country and my party, I cannot and will not let that result stand.”But friends from...