Word: partisanship
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...Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been sponsored by the letter c, for controversy. In 2003 he became the head of the board, which oversees and funds public TV and radio. Since then, the Republican has fought what some conservatives consider PBS's liberal bias and been accused of partisanship. PBS has had a string of culture-war flare-ups, including a spat over an episode of the kids' program Postcards from Buster that featured two lesbian moms. Prominent Democrats last week called for Tomlinson's resignation, while some House Republicans tried to slash the CPB's funding by $100 million...
...Dobbsians despair about the rule of corporate interests; Friedmanites despair about the reign of witless partisanship. Both groups, but especially the Friedmanites, are appalled by the willingness of politicians-and yes, the press-to let social issues like the life and death of Terri Schiavo and peripheral fights over presidential appointments overwhelm the traditional priorities of economic and foreign policy. But the political landscape may be about to change...
...moderate Senators crafted a filibuster compromise on Tuesday, avoiding the nuclear option by preserving the judicial filibuster in extraordinary circumstances. Moderates have wrenched the future of the Senate from the hands of extremists and offered Americans a (perhaps fleeting but nonetheless welcome) respite from the usual politics of partisanship...
...Bill Frist, R-Tenn. proposed to end the use of the filibuster on judicial nominations—the so-called “nuclear option.” And at stake is more than just a few judicial nominees; this would dramatically damage the foundations of our democracy, pulling partisanship and political extremism further to the forefront and destroying the compromise and moderation that have marked American politics for over two hundred years...
This was one more episode illustrating the singular relationship that has grown up between these two political adversaries. Kennedy has lifted anchor and is drifting in lonely but intriguing fashion beyond the old Senate "club" and the Democratic Party's reflexive partisanship. He can be as tough as boiled owls about Reagan's policies ("cold unfairness") but in the same breath admiring of the man ("Ronald Reagan has restored the presidency as a vigorous, purposeful instrument of national leadership...