"On health care, my opponent offers the same tired, partisan ideas that have led our country nowhere," Mr. Bush said.
"All the partisan ideas that are being offered fall short of producing the huge amount of barrels of oil we need," said Amy Myers Jaffe, an oil expert at Rice University.
There are a lot of ideas that I don't think are partisan ideas but are just smart ideas about how can we make the federal government more customer-friendly".
For years now it has not been a symbol of unity, but an unwilling pawn in a battle of partisan ideas.
"I have traveled across New York state discussing my vision for how to grow the economy and create jobs by finding common core values to pass what shouldn't be partisan ideas," Gillibrand said.
However, the new direction must not roll back the progress that the Affordable Care Act has made in extending Medicare solvency and should not be used to implement partisan ideas that ultimately harm Medicare beneficiaries by making them pay more for the care that they receive.
This purported outreach for suggestions on a "new direction" is a thinly-veiled attempt by Republicans to advance partisan ideas of premium support and to require Medicare beneficiaries to have "more skin in the game" – code for ensuring Medicare beneficiaries pay more for their care.
