Word: partisanship
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President Obama’s win in the 2008 presidential election was due in part to a message of post-partisan politics. However, recent votes on the Congressional floor have shown that the politicking in Washington today is characterized by more of the same divisive partisanship from before. No members of the GOP voted for the Senate version of the healthcare bill, and only one Republican representative affirmed it in the House. With a filibuster looming upon Brown’s election, Democrats in Congress should now take a new approach to the formulation and passage of health care legislation...
...healthcare debate in Washington, namely that 55 percent of Americans now feel that the current bill should be altered to garner more Republican support. Reworking the bill does not mean discarding it entirely. However, it is clear that the public wants to see an end to the fierce partisanship of the deliberation on Capitol Hill. Accordingly, the Democrats should honor the will of the people by opening up the legislation to Republican ideas to achieve a bill with the bipartisan support to ward off a Senate filibuster...
...American; Congressional leaders must not resort to such convoluted and reductive measures to pass bills as important and complex as healthcare reform. Again, the best approach to take looking forward is open discussion of the issues on both sides of the aisle. Only pragmatic accommodation can reconcile the bitter partisanship plaguing this process...
...partisanship hasn't stopped with the issue of security. The decision on Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Michigan to return a six-count indictment against Abdulmutallab might ordinarily have been a routine step in a criminal prosecution. But it has only stoked the debate over whether Abdulmutallab should have instead been handed over to the military. (See pictures of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab...
...additional steps to fix those shortcomings. Reporting that a systemic failure allowed the bombing attempt, he said he was ultimately responsible and made a plea for unity, a tacit acknowledgment of the sharp accusations that have been made since the thwarted attack. "Now is not the time for partisanship. It's a time for citizenship," he said...