Bipartisanship

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 12 days ago
I'm a diehard pro-choice, anti-gun, gay rights-supporting, liberal Democrat. So is pretty much everyone in my life. My parents have voted Democrat in every election. Their parents were Democrats. All my friends are liberals. Even my boyfriend supports the Democratic ticket. ...

Source: firstread.msnbc.msn.com --- 38 days ago
From NBC’s Domenico Montanaro In his speech tonight, McCain plans to go after Obama on a lack of Bipartisanship. “I will reach out my hand to anyone to help me get this country moving again,” McCain will say, according to prepared remarks. “I have that record and the scars to prove it. Senator Obama does not." But when Joe Lieberman tried this line of attack on Obama, fact-checkers called the “claim false.” “In the Senate he has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done, nor has he been willing to take on powerful interest groups in the Democratic Party," Lieberman said. “But we've found several instances of legislation that Obama passed in concert with Republican lawmakers,” Politifact wrote. Politifact cited three instances - working with Tom Coburn, a McCain supporter on a creating a databse “of federal contracts and grants;” with Dick Lugar on a law that “won enactment of a 2006 law (PL 109-401) that allowed the United States to export nuclear fuel, technology and reactors to India for the first time in three decades;” and “with Lugar on a Senate bill that authorized the president to carry out a program to provide assistance to foreign countries to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Another part of the measure was intended to stop the spread of conventional weapons, notably shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles that the legislation refers to as man-portable air defense systems, or MA ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 39 days ago
Workers prepare the newly arranged stage in the morning of day four of the Republican National Convention at the Xcel Energy Center today in St. Paul, Minnesota. Sen. McCain will accept the GOP nomination for U.S. President tonight. ...

Source: blog.washingtonpost.com --- 10 days ago
By Michael Abramowitz DENVER -- Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says he didn't speak on the Senate floor in favor of the economic rescue plan Wednesday night because he didn't think the Democrats wanted him or his politics there, and he did not want to get in the way of bipartisan progress on the bill, according to the Denver Post. In an hour-long interview here with the Post's editorial board, McCain addressed his silence on the Senate floor, which stood in contrast to Democrat Barack Obama, who delivered a floor speech in favor of the measure. McCain did say he was making calls to House members and had persuaded fellow Arizonan, Rep. John Shaddeg (R) to support the bill when it comes up for another vote this afternoon. "I have never been any good at threatening people," McCain told the Post. ...

Source: blog.washingtonpost.com --- 12 days ago
Republican presidential nominee John McCain delivers a speech at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri October 1, 2008. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) By Michael D. Shear INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- Declaring that "if we fail to act, the gears of our economy will grind to a halt," Sen. John McCain praised a new spirit of Bipartisanship that he said will carry the financial sector rescue package to passage. Speaking at the Harry S. Truman Library here, McCain said that Congress has "awakened to the danger" of financial collapse if the bill is not passed, and he predicted that the new version of the measure will be acceptable to members. "If the financial rescue bill fails in Congress yet again, the present crisis will turn into a disaster," he said. "But in the case of this bill, I am confident there are enough people of good will in both parties to ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 38 days ago
McCain, 72, planned to tell the delegates to the Republican National Convention that his record of working with members of both major political parties shows how he would govern, if elected. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 38 days ago
Senator John McCain plans to emphasize his history of working with Democrats and promises to govern in a bipartisan fashion as he accepts the Republican presidential nomination tonight and sends the campaign for the White House into a post-convention ...

Source: blogs.usatoday.com --- 25 days ago
Our view on Bipartisanship: Who's the better uniter? McCain has a longer record of bucking his party’s orthodoxy. Presidents who try to push through major policy changes without the opposing party almost always come to grief. George W. Bush's bid... ...

Source: blogs.wsj.com --- 38 days ago
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Source: www.guardian.co.uk --- 15 days ago
Simon Tisdall: In a week when the wheels nearly came off the US economy, the gloves came off in the presidential race ...

Source: www.boston.com --- 38 days ago
ST. PAUL - Senator John McCain, returning to the themes that saved his once flailing presidential quest, last night accepted the Republican nomination with a promise to shake up Washington with a bipartisan strategy and patriotic flair, warning political stalwarts that "change is coming." ...

Source: seattlepi.nwsource.com --- 21 days ago
Bipartisanship! That's the ticket. There have been more vicious political eras in the nation's history, but probably never one in which so much vitriol has been mixed with so many demands for reaching across the aisle in fellowship. ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 41 days ago
Two years ago, Joe Lieberman campaigned throughout Connecticut in attempt to convince Democratic primary voters that he was the true Democrat in the race and that I was "Republican-lite". He promised significant American troop reductions by the end of 2006 - and just enough voters believed him in November 2006 to earn him re-election. This evening, at the Republican National Convention, Senator Lieberman will likely reprise Ronald Reagan by claiming that he has not left the Democratic Party, but that it has left him. He will likely claim that the Democratic Party has abandoned the strong foreign policy tradition of Truman, Kennedy, and Clinton. He may even cherry-pick a phrase or two that he commonly lifts from Kennedy's inaugural address - framing Kennedy's famous call to "pay any price and bear any burden" as a call to arms. But the call in John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech was clear, and resonates even louder today as the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, not as a call to battle, but as a call to bear the burden in the long struggle against the common enemies of mankind - tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself. Kennedy did not praise unilateral military excursions around the world, he praised the United Nations as "our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace." Kennedy did not call for a military answer to every question, but for real statesmanship ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 1 day ago
The Democratic leadership agreed to sign on to the bailout from the beginning, risking the wrath of much of the country, including many of their core supporters. Given this history and the severity of the crisis facing the economy, how about a little reciprocity? This one is simple. Why shouldn't President Bush commit himself to making the next President's nominee for treasury secretary a full partner in the conduct of the bailout from the day that this person is named? This would mean that the new president's nominee for treasury secretary would be consulted and have input into all the decisions related to the bailout. Of course Henry Paulson would remain secretary and would have the final call on all decisions. However this arrangement would ensure that the new secretary hits the ground running. The country clearly faces a severe financial and economic crisis. Under the circumstances, this one should be a no-brainer. What would be the argument against giving the new treasury secretary a head start? (Hey, it could be a Republican.) So, were the Dems taken yet again or will Bush be open to Bipartisanship when it means that he may actually have to give up something? More on Wall Street Crisis ...

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com --- 22 days ago
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Source: corner.nationalreview.com --- 13 days ago
As I discuss on Bench Memos (here, here, and here), somehow President Bush recently nominated--and the Senate, not surprisingly, last Friday confirmed--at least three district-court nominees whose records of political contributions are exclusively or heavily Democratic (including support for John Kerry in the 2004 presidential race and for Barack Obama now) and who show, so far as I'm aware, no signs of sharing President Bush's espoused judicial philosophy. ...

Source: www.stltoday.com --- 38 days ago
``I will reach out my hands to anyone, to get this country moving again.'' This got some applause -- but the subsequent jab at Obama got more. Throughout the speech, he's going back and forth between partisanship and bi-partisanship (Obama… ...

Source: www.bostonherald.com --- 18 days ago
For more than a week the financial crisis has sent Wall Street into a panic, made world markets wacky and ordinary people just plain scared. Even within weeks of a presidential... ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 38 days ago
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Source: www.sacbee.com --- 16 days ago
John McCain's sudden intervention in Washington's deliberations over the Wall Street bailout could not have been more out of sync with what was actually happening. ...