Word: partisanship
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...many ways, last week's drama was about revenge. Clinton's impeachment is the latest episode in the intensification of congressional partisanship that dates back at least to the Democrat-controlled Senate's 1987 rejection of Robert Bork for the Supreme Court. It includes the scuttling of George Bush's nomination of John Tower to become Defense Secretary amid rumors about his drinking and behavior toward women, as well as the fight over Clarence Thomas, the ouster of House Speaker Jim Wright on ethics charges and the fight that Newt Gingrich led over the misuse of the House bank. Congress...
...oral sex is, what telephone sex is and what you can do with a cigar sexually." And Father Robert Drinan, the ultraliberal former member from Massachusetts, predicted that the committee would "go down in the history books as one that was dominated by vindictiveness and by vengeance and by partisanship." Representative Howard Coble of North Carolina, who sometimes sounds like he's still got a place on Mayberry R.F.D., reacted by challenging Drinan, still in clerical garb, to a rumble. "We're going about our business," Coble croaked. "And if anybody thinks that vengeance is involved, I'll meet them...
Mansfield said that in the Berkowitz case, thesystem broke down because partisanship infiltratedthe deliberative process...
...oppressive partisanship that dominated the Starr investigation and infected the Judiciary Committee has turned the investigation of the President into a rancorous partisan fight. If it ever was one, this investigation is no longer a search for truth...
...some commission members said the e-mailmessage crossed over the line to partisanship...