Word: partisanship
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...argued for the importance of bi-partisanship, an ideal he followed before it had become a Beltway buzzword. He seemed more like a professor than politician during Congressional hearings. And he was attacked for speaking his mind and not simply playing games of political networking...
...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...
...Talk of Many Things" comes with dust jacket blurbs from, among others, George McGovern and John Kenneth Galbraith. Galbraith, Buckley's old pal and ideological nemesis, helps take some of the partisanship out of the proceedings by calling the book "sheer delight from humor and prose, whatever the political faith." I also am a friend of Buckley's, and I confess to viewing him through the lens of an immense affection...
Scarcely more than a year after its denouement, the Lewinsky scandal has already entered its revisionist phase. The inevitable histories are showing up in bookstores, and the most commercially successful of them--from Monica Lewinsky's bathetic memoir Monica's Story to the artful partisanship of Jeffrey Toobin's A Vast Conspiracy--are markedly one-sided in recounting the struggle between Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr. The accepted narrative, in brief: an insensitive but all too human Chief Executive is beset by a sex-obsessed religious zealot masquerading as an upholder of the rule of law. To judge by sales...
...same time or cost constraints as a traditional prosecutor - in fact, he has a team of lawyers devoted exclusively to building as many separate cases as possible against a single defendant. This power is somewhat nullified in the courtlike settings of an impeachment trial, as congressmen are given to partisanship and voting the will of the public. Such benefits would be lost in a jury trial...