Understanding science as a special kind of representation should also provide defenses against untenable black-and-white rules that rest on untested judicial assumptions or, worse, on partisan assertions by experts.
Ellen Mittelman Scarsdale, N.Y., July 26, 2009 To the Editor: Your assertion ("Partisan or Not, a Tough Course on Health Care," Political Memo, front page, July 26) that bipartisanship was "exhibited" in the enactment of Medicare is a serious distortion of the historical record.
Mr. Lazio's spokesman, Dan McLagan, called those assertions partisan attacks.
Dan McLagan, a spokesman for Mr. Lazio, dismissed Mr. Kennedy's assertions as partisan rhetoric.
This isn't just liberal propaganda, it's the assertion of non-partisan groups like The Urban Institute, Kaiser Family Foundation and CBO.
I agree with President Obama's assertion in his (sadly partisan and seemingly interminable) July 24 speech in Galesburg, Ill., that inequality is an important concern for the nation and that American economic policies should take this issue into account.
And they did not buy assertions that he is a rabid partisan with a radical liberal agenda that is wrecking America.
This assertion is even more transparently a case of partisan sniping than Giuliani's comments.
Instead, he has written a book that reads like a combination of White House talking points and a partisan brief on presidential prerogatives — a book that is strewn with preposterous assertions, contorted reasoning and illogical conclusions.
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner joined the partisan sparring over women on Sunday, rejecting out of hand the Romney campaign's assertion that the burden of joblessness had fallen disproportionately on women.
