Word: partisanship
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Bush campaign officials are accusing the Reno Justice Department of blatant partisanship by leaking a story that FBI investigators have focused on someone inside the Bush camp as a likely suspect in the case of who mailed a sensitive Bush debate preparation videotape and documents to the Gore campaign. Reacting furiously to an Associated Press story that moved very early Saturday morning, Bush communications director Karen Hughes told reporters that campaign manager Joe Allbaugh has called FBI director Louis Freeh to complain that "it is completely inappropriate and wrong for the Justice Department to play politics by leaking information...
...then falls into Camelot prose, the elegiac, mock-heroic blather about bright promise and fate and doom and how the gods have it in for the Kennedys--a literary form of which Arthur Schlesinger Jr. is a founding master. And at times, Thomas slips into dreamy, unthinking partisanship: "Americans were afraid in 1968, and they eventually voted their fears and elected Richard Nixon." But perhaps Americans simply decided that the Democrats, with their ruinous, unwinnable war in Vietnam and their grandiose, badly managed Great Society, deserved a rest...
...lost a night's ad revenue. Al Gore, he said - in a speech punctuated with some unfortunately familiar-looking finger-wagging -was a profoundly decent man who loved his children, a leader who understood the challenges facing America in the twenty-first century. Al Gore put people above partisanship. He was born in Tennessee, in the wagon of a traveling show. His mama used to dance for the money they'd throw...
...federal government [of today] has a much higher level of partisanship [and is] much more notably bitter. That is regrettable--democracy must operate on the basis of consensus," Schlesinger says...
...Supreme Court. Danforth fought zealously for his former staff member in the face of Anita Hill's charges of sexual harassment. He ultimately prevailed but retired three years later, still smarting. He wrote a book about the hearings, titled Resurrection, in which he sounded almost surprised that partisanship can get nasty. With degrees in law and divinity, Danforth is in some ways an overgrown boy scout, which would also balance the smart-alecky Bush. "Jack Danforth wouldn't know how to smirk if you told him to," quipped a former aide...