The climate of examination is a significant change from just two weeks ago, when Vice President Dick Cheney took to the airwaves and warned Congress, especially the Democrats, that they should be very cautious about trying to exploit for partisan gain any examination of the intelligence failures that may have contributed to the attacks on the United States.
American politics has been poisoned over the past eight years by the belief that federal law enforcement has been exploited for partisan advantage.
I saw Eric Cantor, a Republican House leader, on CNBC the other day, and the entire interview consisted of him trying to exploit the A.I.G. situation for partisan gain without one constructive thought.
Senator Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, argued for the creation of an independent "truth commission," which could grant immunity to witnesses — thus helping to insulate the Obama Administration from charges that it was exploiting the torture issue for partisan gain.
From September 2012 until May 2013, Republicans have shamefully tried, and failed, to exploit the deaths of Americans at Benghazi for partisan gain.
Never has a prime minister publicly attacked a non-partisan election official in such a manner, essentially for partisan gain.
Too many people here are willing to deliberately harm the country for partisan gain.
And officials of each party suggested today that their counterparts were capitalizing on the tragedy for partisan gain.
The conference stage, when different versions of a bill are reconciled, has been turned from an occasion for compromise into yet another opportunity for partisan gain.
The problem is not just confined to the cynical scissoring up of districts for partisan gain.
