Senator Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, came up with the idea, apparently to find a way to bring about some comity in a nonlegislative manner, similar to when members earlier this year broke with tradition to sit with colleagues from across the aisle during President Obama's State of the Union.
At that GWU conversation about the vice presidency last week, my jaw dropped, as did Mondale's, when Biden said this about his predecessor to illustrate his point about comity: "I actually like Dick Cheney, for real.
The Republican governor, normally the King of I, was all about comity and collaboration.
Mr. Sweeney had gutted and cleaned the public unions, reducing health and pension benefits, and the governor could not say enough nice things about bipartisan comity.
At the 2004 Democratic Convention, in Boston, Obama delivered a retooled version of the stump speech about ideological comity — "There is not a liberal America and a conservative America; there is the United States of America!" — and became a national political star.
At the 2004 Democratic Convention, in Boston, Obama delivered a retooled version of the stump speech about ideological comity—"There is not a liberal America and a conservative America; there is the United States of America!"—and became a national political star.
It simply means that we are not going to bring about an age of bipartisan comity simply by sending our legislators to the Hawk And Dove every night.
It's about community and comity of purpose, the gift of responsibility, the sense of integrity that comes upon people when the pieces of their lives come together.
I asked Fred Kessler, an affable Democrat from Milwaukee who has been a state legislator, on and off, for more than half a century, if the advent of Scott Walker has brought about, as many people claim, some dramatic loss of comity in Wisconsin.
