Word: partisanship
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...presidential campaign has been going full bore for more than a year, but suddenly everything that happened before about a month ago seems irrelevant. Through the fog of partisanship, we can acknowledge that both candidates are good men. But good isn't enough. This time we need greatness...
...Youth advocates say they will focus on putting out fires until after Election Day. Once the hyper-partisanship has ebbed, they will start a more aggressive push - kicked off by a hearing in front of the House Administration Committee on Sept. 25 - for their long-term legislative goals, which include facilitating student-voter registration both on Election Day and far in advance of it through high school civics classes, as well as more consistent guidelines to help registrars do their jobs and ensure that students get to vote. Says Sujatha Jahagirdar, program director of the Student Public Interest Research Group...
...government that could not lift a finger to fix health care or highways could suddenly find $700 billion for No Banker Left Behind? And so this time, people made themselves heard: they passed petitions, lit up the phone lines, melted the message boards. In an age of poisonous partisanship, it was like an antitoxin, the country drawn together, red and blue, young and old, in disgust at elected Representatives who had failed to foresee or forestall a man-made, slow-motion catastrophe...
...quick negative response and the general atmosphere that pervades Washington, both sides were quick to point fingers. House Republicans charged to the microphones to blame Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the defeat, saying that at least a dozen of their members switched their votes because they were offended by the partisanship of a speech she gave on the House floor. Democrats scoffed at that excuse. "Think of this: Somebody hurt my feelings, so I am going to punish the country," said House Banking Committee chairman Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat who had been one of the chief negotiators of the plan...
...addition to offering higher definition, however, Abortion Under State Constitutions practices a subtle form of partisanship. Linton is a special counsel to the Thomas More Society, a pro-life group, and it paid for some of his research time. He proves very good at raising and explaining the state-by-state legal issues, and his careful analysis reveals a darker picture for pro-choice advocates. In the end he finds only 12 states that would be likely to recognize a woman's right to an abortion if Roe went down, while pro-choice groups generally believe there...