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Obama Defeats . . . Nixon?

Daniel Frick | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sarah Palin Attacks, Politics of Fear, John McCain, John McCain Attack Ads, Richard Nixon, Tricky Dick, President Obama, Obama Bipartisanship, Bipartisanship, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Politics News

Can Barack Obama succeed in laying Richard Nixon's ghost to rest? As Obama pledges bipartisanship and reaches across the aisle to John McCain, many of us can't help but hope that we've seen the end of the politics of denigration.

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The Internet Presidency

Kate Lear | Posted 12.16.2008 | Media

Read More: Obama Websites, change.gov, Internet, Change, Activism, Websites, Obama Administration, Bipartisanship, Partisanship, Barack Obama, Media News

With amazing speed, President-elect Obama has answered the question of what would become of the mouth-watering database of names his campaign created from volunteers and donors.

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Bipartisanship Gone Wrong: A Cautionary Tale for the Next Administration

Elizabeth Rigby | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Meet the Press, Congress, Bipartisanship, State Children's Health Insurance Program, President Obama, Politics, Obama Transition, Nbc, Bill Clinton, Policy, Health Care, Gridlock, Valerie Jarrett, Schip, State Children's Health, Politics News

My hope that the Obama administration eschews the typical form of crafted bipartisanship characterized by short-term compromises that gloss over ideological differences.

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Negative Campaigning and the Morning After

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Post-Partisan, John McCain, Bipartisanship, Republican Party, Afghanistan, John Lewis, Barack Obama, Bipartisan Debate, Politics News

If we are serious about moving the US into a post-partisan, or at least a less partisan, phase, it is neither fair, reasonable nor wise to place all the burden of doing this on the president-elect.

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Elephant in the Room: When Will the GOP Join the Blogosphere?

Maegan Carberry and Elizabeth Blackney | Posted 12.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Conservative Media, Liberal Media, Blogosphere, Twitter, Republican Party Internet Outreach, The Huffington Post, Political Talk Radio, Political Blogging, Barack Obama Internet, Bipartisanship 2008, Republican Party Blogosphere, Arianna Huffington, Daily Kos, 2008 Presidential Election, Keith Olbermann Bill O'Reilly, Liberal Media Bias, Conservative Talk Radio, New Media Campaigning, Drudge Report, Barack Obama Internet Campaign, Republican Party Problems, Bipartisanship, Media News

Liberals may be ecstatic about the influence the blogosphere has had on the election results, but thoughtful citizens should have reservations about the absence of conservative dialogue.

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Sharing the Obama Love

Stephen H. Dinan | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Mccain, Obama, Love, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Political Critiques, Michelle Obama, Obama Loyalty, Political Allegiance, Obama Campaign, American Dream, Barack Michelle Obama, Bipartisanship, Attack Ads, Obama Spiritual Leader, Politics News

As we share openly with others what we love about Obama and what his presidency will mean, we allow people to shift from policies, parties, and attack ads into real human connection.

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Putting Policy over Politics

Doug Schoen | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bipartisanship, Wall Street Crisis, Bailout Vote, Government Bailout, Bailout, House Bailout, Politics News

The recent effort to repair the country's ailing financial system was a perfect opportunity to make historic progress in ending the vicious partisanship that has characterized Washington for decades.

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Leadership by Contempt

David Weinberger | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Debate, John McCain, Obama, Presidential Debates, Peace, Mccain, Barack Obama, Bipartisanship, Bipartisan Debate, Politics News

Obama showed us last night what a leader looks like.

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Failed Republican Strategies Remain Wrong Kind of 'Experience'

Maegan Carberry | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Presidential Debate, Presidential Debates, Barack Obama, John McCain, Bipartisan Debate, Vice-Presidential Debate, Sarah Palin, Joe Biden, Bipartisanship, Politics News

The thing Obama and Democrats have going for us is the last eight years.

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Bailout Bill: Obama Needs to Lead, Not Be One of the Bailout Bipartisan Musketeers

Arianna Huffington | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Government Bailout, Paulson Bailout Package, Bailout, Paulson Bailout, Henry Paulson, Bipartisanship, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News

If Obama goes along with the latest bill it in the name of post-partisan comity, he's making a big mistake. Washington is not lacking political leaders willing to go along with the flow.

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What Would Broder Do?

John McQuaid | Posted 10.26.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Banking Crisis, John McCain, Bipartisanship, Bailout, 2008 Election, David Broder, Media News

McCain's move doesn't make much logical sense coming on the heels of nearly six weeks of divisive culture war politics. But it amounts to an appeal to one of the most dearly-held big media assumptions.

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It's Time for the "Deregulators" Like McCain to Step Aside and Shut Up

Mitchell Bard | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

How can a guy like John Boehner, who got us into this mess in the first place, have the unmitigated nerve to try and dictate the terms of how to fix things?

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Still Time to do the Right Thing

Taina Bien-Aime | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Women, Law Enforcement, Tvpa, Doj, Sex Trafficking, Obama, Mccain, Bipartisanship, Biden, Human Trafficking, Tvpra, Politics News

The Wilberforce Act targets pimping and traffickers, which in turn will help prevent sex trafficking and protect its victims, which in turn will help us become effective leaders in combating human trafficking.

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Speculations on 'Partisan Rancor'

Nicholas Brown | Posted 10.08.2008 | Home

Read More: Diary of an Aspiring New Yorker, Partisan Rancor, John McCain, Bipartisanship, Election 2008, Republican Convention, Home News

Saturday, September 6th 3:55 pm CDT - If you ever really need to remind yourself that September is not July, jump in a lake in northern Minnesota. If...

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Lieberman's Partisanship Paradox

John McQuaid | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Joe Lieberman, Bipartisanship, Republican National Convention, RNC Lieberman Speech, Lieberman RNC Speech, Joe Lieberman RNC, Lieberman RNC Convention, Politics News

Lieberman's convention speech was a partisan speech cloaked in bipartisan rhetoric. All politicians are egotists, but Lieberman seems to have retreated into a kind of narcissistic cocoon.

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Bipartisan Support for our Children -- It Has Happened!

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 08.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Law, Children, Health, George W. Bush, Exxon Mobil, Cpsc, Environment, Lead Paint Toys, Regulation, Green Living, Bipartisanship, Chemicals, Toxic Toys, Phthalates, Green News

The final day of July 2008 may go down in history as the moment the tides of democracy shifted away from corporate cronyism and back to the people.

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Bipartisan Partisanship -- Not An Oxymoron

Lanny Davis | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Negotiation, Triangulation, Purple States, Centrism, McCain Obama, Bipartisanship, Democrats, Genuine Politics, Politics News

McCain and Obama can can get our politics back into the fact-driven solutions business, listening to ideas from liberals and conservatives to pick among them based on what works, not what is ideologically correct.

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Why the Left Doesn't "Get" Obama

Peter Clothier | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bob Herbert, Bipartisanship, Election 2008, Jill Bolte Taylor, Barack Obama, Obama FISA, Obama Centrist, Obama Guns, Politics News

Flexibility and openness is Obama's way forward, and it's the kind of politics he has been championing from the beginning -- the kind of politics, let's remember, that had us all chanting, "Yes, we can!"

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Goodbye to St. Barack

Caryl Rivers | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Smear Campaigns, Richard Nixon, Dirty Politics, Barack Obama Blue Majority, Bipartisanship, Dick Tuck, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News

It would be nice if Obama reached across the aisle to like-minded Republicans, but the fact is, if he wants to get anything done, he should push hard to see that the Democrats get a majority in the House and Senate.

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Bipartisanship Thrives -- At Least When it Comes to Earmarks

Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Pork Barrel Spending, Congress, Earmarks, Federal Budget, Washington Post, Bipartisanship, Politics News

Earmarks are back on the scene. Despite repeated attempts to kill the industry, or at least weaken it, the current House defense authorization bill contains almost $10 billion dollars of red ink.

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The Bipartisanship Scam

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Congress, Gerald Seib, Gop, Bush Legacy, Bipartisanship, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Health Care, John Harwood, Politics News

The public's "hunger for change" is not caused by a lack of bipartisanship. It might have something to do with the Iraq war, the sputtering economy, the price of gas, and the way the Bush administration has systematically abandoned the moral high ground.

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Partisan Split Grows Over Housing Crisis

New York Times | Edmund L. Andrews | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Economic Stimulus Package, Subprime Mortgages, Bankrupty, Mortgage Crisis, Bipartisanship, Henry Paulson, Recession, Homeowners, Economic Stimulus Plan, Housing Crisis, Bush Economic Stimulus Plan, Business News

Just one month after President Bush and Democratic leaders hailed their bipartisan agreement on an economic stimulus plan, the two sides went back to ...

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