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Actually, it's pretty clear what Americans want. They want an end to partisan bickering. They want pragmatic solutions, not ideological posturing. They want leaders who reject politics as usual and put the country's interests ahead of the party's. They want a government that will do the right thing, regardless of whether it is "liberal" or "conservative." They don't like labels. And, oh yes, they are tired of spin...
Amidst the screeching and bellowing of the past two weeks, Nunn has sought and held the reassuring middle octaves. In a torrent of pent-up partisan glee released by a major Reagan failure, he has refused to prophesy the end of Reaganism or the fall of the Western Alliance. "The Republic survives almost anything we do inside the Beltway," he chuckles...
...increasing scholarships,” said Donahue. The current interest rate on student loans was raised to 6.8 percent by Congress’s Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. That measure passed in the Republican-controlled House by a margin of 216 to 214 in a narrow partisan vote last February. This year’s initiative to cut the current rate was overwhelmingly supported by the House by a 356 to 71 margin. Suzanne Day, who handles Harvard’s federal relations in Washington, said that the Bush administration will likely oppose the bill...
...Qassem insists that Iran is a neutral actor in the crisis, saying it is the U.S. that is partisan in openly backing the government against Hizballah...
...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...