Word: partisanship
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Several months ago, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considered a proposal to make emergency contraception over the counter and place this birth control right on pharmacy shelves. Yet despite its potential to reduce teen pregnancy, politics trumped rationality and an organization that was created to keep partisanship out of important medical decisions caved in under political pressure. In a letter to the FDA, 44 members of Congress wrote, "We urge you to reject the petition currently before you to make the morning-after pill as accessible to our nation's teenage daughters as aspirin or hair spray." Apparently, these...
Several months ago, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considered a proposal to make emergency contraception over the counter and place this birth control right on pharmacy shelves. Yet despite its potential to reduce teen pregnancy, politics trumped rationality and an organization that was created to keep partisanship out of important medical decisions caved in under political pressure. In a letter to the FDA, 44 members of Congress wrote, “We urge you to reject the petition currently before you to make the morning-after pill as accessible to our nation’s teenage daughters as aspirin...
...electorate seems both cynical and hyperpartisan. The partisanship may be a reflexive reaction to a campaign that has got too hot too soon. The cynicism may be a rational reaction to the Bush Administration's hyperbolic arguments for war in Iraq and to Kerry's distressing tendency to surround issues rather than take positions on them. In neither case is it very healthy, and the general level of disgust and frustration seems likely to get worse. We may have reached the point at which a civil political conversation is no longer possible in this country...
...guess is that policy boldness won't work. There isn't the money to spend, and Bush has been bold to a fault overseas. The most daring promise Kerry can make involves a matter of style, not substance: peace in our time--in Washington. An end to the berserk partisanship that has overtaken the nation, a return to creative moderation. But a mere promise to be nice isn't enough: Bush promised that in 2000. No, Kerry has to go further. The ideal step would be to make John McCain his choice for Vice President and announce a government...
...They’re independent spirits out there. They can’t be pigeonholed,” Barend says. “These are folks who respect public officials, those who put policy above partisanship...