Once a traditional partisan match-up was set, both candidates went relentlessly negative.
Until we're clear about what to expect of our government, and how our president sees its role, the debate about its proper size will remain a partisan shouting match.
Mrs. Clinton's campaign argues that her experience in the culture wars of the '90s, her eternal war-room footing and her deep roots in party politics would be assets in what they see as a partisan death match.
Then in 1982, he took the same idea of a nightly partisan sparring match and created "Crossfire" with Patrick J. Buchanan, with Mr. Braden as the liberal to Mr. Buchanan's conservative.
The first fireworks erupted about halfway through the day-long hearing when the two top members of the panel, chairman Trey Gowdy of South Carolina and ranking member Elijah Cummings of Maryland, burst into a partisan shouting match.
By characterizing the midterms as "an overall struggle for protecting human rights and dignity" rather than a partisan grudge match, Swift is speaking effectively to young people who have less fealty to the party structure, said William Fotter, the vice president of the University of Arizona Democrats.
But during political season it has become an ugly partisan shouting match.
And despite the fact that some members got into a partisan pissing match over which administration — George W. Bush's or Barack Obama's — was worse on transparency, they seemed genuinely interested in making sure that FOIA works as intended. .
Geoff Cowart of musicOMH found its message and music to be "weak" and Cooder to be "overly preachy," commenting that "despite some first-class guitar playing ... the tunes come off second-best to the partisan grudge match".
At this point, it has gone beyond a partisan bickering match — the producers of jobs and creators of revenue cite California's continually declining business climate as a major reason for departure.
Mr. Kratovil's experience was part of a phenomenon that swept the country last week, with increasingly ugly scenes of partisan screaming matches, scuffles, threats and even arrests.
