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...news changes. John Howard looks cooked in his own seat of Bennelong, generating the night's first full-throated roar. Better, Queensland is delivering. Labor's black sheep in recent elections, it's going to carry its local boy to the Prime Ministership. "We're a very partisan place," says Russell Griffiths in the center of a pulsing throng...
...That sort of clarity has been rare in the presidential campaign and almost totally nonexistent among the Democrats in Congress, who are being foolishly partisan on two key issues: continued funding for the war in Iraq and updating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The Iraq-funding issue is particularly difficult. Senator Carl Levin's proposal for a gradual troop withdrawal, starting now, is the right policy. Various Bush Administration officials - though none in the White House - have told me that a troop withdrawal is the best leverage we have for shoving the Iraqis into a national-reconciliation deal...
...chance you'll get involved in politics? -Mike Brand, Tallahassee, Fla.I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice...
...Listing a host of “politically difficult” problems, including financial deficits, a “zero” personal savings rate, and the current account deficit, Rubin bemoaned the partisan divide that he said has diminished the effectiveness of the U.S. political system. Rubin left the public sector after six-and-a-half years, succeeded as Treasury secretary by his protege and former Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers...
Listing a host of “politically difficult” problems, including financial deficits, a “zero” personal savings rate, and the current account deficit, Rubin bemoaned the partisan divide that he said has diminished the effectiveness of the U.S. political system. Rubin left the public sector after six-and-a-half years, succeeded as Treasury secretary by his protege and former Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers...