Word: partisanship
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...pieces, the Senate minority leader gave every appearance of struggling to put things back together again. On health care, Dole asked, "Why aren't we sitting together? Why don't we make a list of all the things we agree on?" Later, when an angry Clinton blamed G.O.P. partisanship for sinking the crime bill, Dole declared that "playing the blame game won't get us anywhere" and faxed a letter of ostensible compromise to the President as he flew on Air Force One. Who is this statesman-like, conciliatory character in the body of Dole...
...Starr set aside his partisanship and conduct a fair investigation? Starr sees himself, above all else, as a public servant ready and willing to tackle the task at hand. "My job is to chop the wood that is before me to chop," he said in 1991. "I have a very keen sense that I am to do what I am called upon to do." Starr has been entrusted in the past with sensitive tasks such as reviewing the diaries of Bob Packwood for the Senate Ethics Committee. While Starr has never before worked as a prosecutor, colleagues expect...
...start from square one. Meanwhile, Congressional hearings wound down with Republicans continuing to call for the resignation of Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman. Today's highlight was a sharp exchange in which White House counsel Lloyd Cutler lashed out at Republican members of the Senate Banking Committee for their partisanship. "You come from a party which while it held the White House was responsible for Watergate and Iran-contra," he said.WHAT NEXT? Expect Altman to resign, says TIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. Others who can be counted "among the walking dead" include Jean Hanson, the Treasury counsel, and hapless diarist...
...media is, What took you so long? To liberals who label the charges unsubstantiated and irrelevant, the question is, Why are you raking up this muck? Both sides are right in perceiving widespread journalistic aversion to the story. That reluctance involves ethical and gender issues that go far beyond partisanship...
...STATE REGULATORS GO EASY ON MADISON GUARANTY IN RETURN FOR FAVORS TO THE CLINTONS? This is another charge leveled by Leach, who cannot conveniently be accused of blind partisanship. He is, in fact, perhaps the least partisan Republican in the House. One reason for the contention: at the start of 1985, Clinton appointed Beverly Bassett Schaffer as head of the state department that regulates S&Ls. Later, Schaffer approved a proposal for an unusual stock sale to shore up McDougal's already troubled S&L. The proposal was presented by none other than Hillary Clinton, acting as attorney for Madison...