This no-nonsense, former two-term governor has repeatedly expressed frustration over Capitol Hill's inability to overcome the petty partisan politics practiced by Senator Tom Daschle Democrat-South Dakotaa) et al. Early on in the Bush presidency, Miller supported the President's tax cut package, recognizing before most of his colleagues that the economy was faltering.
And not only are Republicans abusing the "advise and consent" clause in the Constitution to prevent the will of the majority of Americans to be heard, but due to partisan gerrymandering (practiced by both parties), these congressmen do not even accurately reflect the opinions of the residents of their own states.
(Ralph Notaro, another El Caribe executive, said the catering hall did not practice partisan politics, as it had hosted Democrats, too).
Maybe instead of practicing partisan politics and pushing the same old ideas, members of Congress should go to their district or state and get to know their constituents who have lost jobs.
Crony capitalists of immense wealth pledge tens of millions of dollars to influence the outcome of elections and we have a Supreme Court that along narrow partisan lines sanctified these practices in the name of the Constitution.
In 2004, Democrats in Pennsylvania presented the Supreme Court with a direct challenge to the practice of partisan gerrymandering.
In practice, though, partisan zealotry has often been the justification for much of the workings on Capitol Hill.
In a performance that rivals Rove's nurturing of a famously inarticulate Texas governor into a two-term president, the strategist is reengineering the practice of partisan money management in hopes of drumming Barack Obama out of the White House.
As recently as February, in a speech at the National Press Club, he suggested that Mr. Bush had been too partisan, citing his own practice of sharing cigars with lawmakers of both parties in his "smoking tent" outside the California Capitol.
This practice of partisan gerrymandering is corruption – plain and simple.
But what is not so obvious in this day and age of "everything is political" is that both President Obama and his Republican critics are wrong to default to the clichéd practice of partisan politics during this potentially transformative moment in the history of the Supreme Court.
