Hurricane Katrina turned swiftly from epic tragedy to political farce — just another partisan quarrel, Social Security reform in hip waders.
Hurricane Katrina turned swiftly from epic tragedy to political farce just another partisan quarrel, Social Security reform in hip waders.
A second evasion: This controversy is not, as they've charged, about my or anyone's "partisan" quarrel with Yale in New Haven.
Very quickly, Republicans and Democrats in Indiana returned to partisan quarreling.
But I ventured out a bit this past year, and I tell you that as partisan quarrels go, ours really aren't so bad.
They say their hero is Jozef Pilsudski, the Polish field marshal who resurrected the Polish state in 1918, but later, disillusioned with partisan quarrels, seized power in a 1926 coup and ruled as dictator until his death in 1935.
After days of tense negotiations and partisan quarrelling, House Republicans came to preliminary terms with the White House and Senate Democrats over financing the government for the next six months, resolving a stubborn impasse that had threatened to disrupt federal operations across the country and around the globe.
He rarely mentions President Bush, as he disparages the partisan quarrels of Washington, and is, at most, elliptically critical of Mr. Edwards and Mrs. Clinton when he notes that he had opposed the war in Iraq from the start; the two of them voted to authorize the war in 2002.
Such was the prestige of Arabic learning in England, according to a startling passage here, that partisans of King Henry II, during the quarrel with Rome over Thomas Becket, threatened the king would convert to Islam.
The skirmish makes Washington's partisan bickering almost seem like a lovers' quarrel, and it highlights the explosive nature of small-town politics, where the local government's decisions can have a more immediate, and tangible, impact on residents than those made by state and federal officials.
He was a vehement partisan of federal interests in the Swiss quarrels with Prussia over Neuchâtel (1856 57) and with France over Savoy (1859), and he led the early unsuccessful struggle to nationalize Swiss railways (1862).
