Month: December 2010

Senate Farewells Sound Familiar Warning: Partisanship is Ruining Us

Senate Farewells Sound Familiar Warning: Partisanship is Ruining Us

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December 22, 2010

Over the past few weeks, many of those leaving the U.S. Senate — either voluntarily or by defeat — have given a farewell address, something of a Senate tradition. The speeches have been remarkable for their similarity. Not in terms of thanking staff and family members and recounting memorable moments or greatest hits of a legislative career. Most of the senators did those things. Rather, they have been remarkable for the warning most of them have sounded about the dismal state of the nation’s body politic.
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Left And Right Attack No Labels Movement

Left And Right Attack No Labels Movement

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December 20, 2010

The new group No Labels held its kick-off at Columbia University last week and announced an effort to try to reform our national political culture offering bipartisanship, civility and centrist political solutions. It’s a goal that virtually every recent poll shows a majority of Americans also want.
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Left And Right Attack No Labels Movement

Obama’s Tax Cut Deal With the GOP Is Bad Policy

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December 7, 2010

For the past year or so I’ve been writing a lot about bipartisanship and the need for Republicans and Democrats to work together to get something done for the American people. So it’s hard to criticize the deal the president struck with Republicans on extending the Bush tax cuts for another two years as not being a bipartisan effort. However, it’s pretty easy to call the plan not very good policy, and I expect that’s exactly what a lot of congressional Democrats will be saying in the coming days.
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'No Labels' Wants to Deliver on Public's Cry for Change, but Will it Work?

‘No Labels’ Wants to Deliver on Public’s Cry for Change, but Will it Work?

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December 14, 2010

At the rollout for No Labels at Columbia University on Monday, one of the group’s founders called the event “our little Woodstock of democracy.” But the well- organized event, with its national media coverage, roster of top political names like New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh, and media heavyweights like David Gergen and Joe Scarborough, felt like anything but Woodstock.
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