slate.com - 1/28/2009
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It has always been hard to define bipartisanship in Washington. Is bipartisan legislation simply a bill that wins a certain number of votes from the minority party? Is a bipartisan politician simply one who disagrees with his or her own party? And in Barack Obama's Washington, the term may be even harder to define. He delivered an inaugural address sharply critical of his predecessor, and then as soon as he was done, he turned around and hugged him. [ more ... ]
washingtonpost.com - 2/2/2009
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E. J. Dionne Jr. - The Obama Stimulus: Bipartisanship at ...
commentarymagazine.com - 1/23/2009
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The new era of bipartisanship isn’t going so
well, the Washington Post tells us: Just days after...
taking office vowing to end the political era of “petty grievances,” President Obama ran into mounting GOP opposition yesterday to an ...
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Bipartisanship Didn’t Make It to the Weekend
washingtonmonthly.com - 1/29/2009
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Bipartisanship And The Stimulus As Steve noted earlier,
the stimulus bill passed the House without a single...
Republican vote. I'm glad it passed. I'm also glad that Obama tried as hard as he did to get bipartisan support, and I...
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Bipartisanship And The Stimulus
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Obama and the GOP
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... the disappointment of senators looking to go home for Superbowl weekend. The Senate could vote as early as next Tuesday which would give Congress nearly two weeks to reconcile the two versions – a conference, I'm told, the Obama folks want to be deeply involved in. Even if Obama ends up getting only a handful or no House GOP votes – he could get more support in the Senate – he can still say he worked with the GOP, took in their ideas and made every effort, which is, in part, what this outreach is all about. Part of it is also a first step in the long process, like ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will press Afghan President Hamid Karzai to extend government control beyond the capital and fight corruption under a new U.S. policy with a "significant non-military component," a White House official ...
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WSJ.com: Washington Wire 1/28/2009
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