Word: partisanship
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...Maharushi will have none of it, and when two callers ask him to let up on the partisanship, at least for one day, and to think nice thoughts about what unites Americans, even after such a bitter ordeal, El Rushbo rips them a new one. The liberals, he says, are more dangerous and partisan now than ever; their way forward as a party now is to make W. fail, and the only way to deal with them is, as always, with a whip and a chair and a revolver...
...Their decision sullies the legitimacy of the court and of the Bush presidency," he wrote in an e-mail message. "The 5-4 decision was based less on principle than on partisanship. In effect, the five justices in the majority simply voted for the president twice--once in November, and again in December...
Frederick Schauer, Stanton professor of the First Amendment at the Kennedy School of Government, said that a confluence of contingencies, rather than partisanship, shaped the ruling...
...believe things happen for a reason, and I hope the long wait of the last five weeks will heighten a desire to move beyond the bitterness and partisanship of the recent past...
...accomplishing one goal and one goal only - to ensure that George W. Bush is the next president of the United States. This is brass knuckles partisan politics at its very worst." (To which Republican Rep. Carlos Lacasa replied: "Partisan politics is democracy in action. Rather than hiding from my partisanship, I will use it like a beacon to guide me in this vote...