That, in general, has long been Obama's primary role in our political system and his premiere, defining value to the permanent power factions that run Washington.
No one knew that better than Madison, who so thoroughly abandoned his dream of a nation devoid of permanent political factions that he ended up institutionalizing them.
The permanent pro-war faction in America never tires of telling us how dangerous it would be if some failure to pursue the right array of violent allies to push our ends abroad were to destroy our credibility with the other bad guys.
(A year later, the Civil Rights Act passed, Goldwater ran, Reagan emerged, and we began the permanent sorting out of our factions into what would be called, anywhere but here, a party of the center right and a party of the extreme right).
The divide resulted in a delay of his confirmation due to political intrigues by the Henshaw faction, and caused a permanent break in political relations between Morton and Bancroft.
The hostilities between adjacent working-class districts composed of different ethnoreligious communities have led to the creation of "peace lines," essentially permanent structures aimed at keeping the warring factions apart.
Putin is the only person capable of arbitrating between the Kremlin's rival factions, who are locked in a permanent and exhausting battle for money and influence.
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One faction holds that welfare creates a permanent class of idle dependents.
"America has displayed a shameful lack of elementary understanding of how the Middle East works," Meir Sheetrit, a member of the Hatnua faction, which has pressed for a permanent peace settlement with the Palestinians, said.
