Trump was slightly more partisan than Obama, who was more partisan than George W. Bush, etc.
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He is making impeachment more partisan on the grounds that others made it more partisan before him.
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But looking deeper into those numbers unearths more partisan reactions.
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But this is not the time for more partisan fighting.
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Go deeper: Trump impeachment starts more partisan than Bill Clinton's
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He's also gotten a lot more partisan in the process.
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More partisan outlets are launching to take advantage of the climate.
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It does seem to be a lot more partisan these days.
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A more partisan media environment is the last thing America needs.
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But, Mr. Manchin said, the president chose a more partisan agenda.
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But Graham's idea is more political -- and more partisan, some Christians say.
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"But in a more partisan world ... the outcome could just be gridlock."
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Meanwhile, the public's views on Medicare for All are becoming more partisan.
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As polarization increased, congressional rhetoric and platforms grew more partisan as well.
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The problem is with senators, who usually become more partisan over time.
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This is not about a witch hunt, hoax, or more partisan power grabs.
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Asked if Graham's plans threatened to make the Judiciary Committee more partisan, Sen.
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"We can't turn the Federal Reserve into a more partisan entity," Romney added.
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Their reliability varies, with some providing deep expertise, while others are more partisan.
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During his presidency, judicial confirmation fights have also become more partisan and polarized.
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Some were willing and eager to be more partisan and activist than others.
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Remember, primary voters tend to be much more partisan than general election voters overall.
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The tactical problem is that it ensures a more partisan and protracted Congressional debate.
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But Democrats will have to become more partisan and more ruthless just to survive.
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It's a more partisan role that Cox could have never undertaken while at Facebook.
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Caring deeply about politics is great, but it does lead to more partisan views.
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Compared with the wealth tax, Medicare for all is a much more partisan issue.
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Even the Supreme Court appears less dispassionate and more partisan than it should be.
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First and foremost is that AIPAC has become more and more partisan over the years.
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The House's bill, passed last year, was far more partisan, with few Democrats supporting it.
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After Newt Gingrich's speakership in the 1990s, they became more partisan and generally less effective.
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The Judiciary Committee has been seen as a more partisan panel, and its chairman, Sen.
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Anil Kalhan, a law school professor at Drexel University, sees the court becoming more partisan.
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Given all that's happened, Democrats have an angrier, more partisan edge than they did then.
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Claiming that N.E.A. cuts are purely for cost savings conceals a deeper, more partisan agenda.
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They'll find that these constituents cannot afford more partisan rhetoric and legislative inaction on healthcare.
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That being said, does it seem, though, that tech and telecom issues are becoming more partisan?
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Mr. Cooper said judicial selection has become much more partisan than it was two decades ago.
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Sadly, in the two decades since, politics has only gotten more partisan, personal and increasingly threatening.
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It impedes the smooth functioning of the court and makes it a much more partisan institution.
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But even before it begins, Mr. Trump's Senate trial appears to be a more partisan affair.
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But that year, Mr. Sayoc's social media presence took on a darker and more partisan tone.
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This is a more partisan sphere and it almost uniformly disdainful of Clinton and her centrist allies.
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But they are more partisan, more tribal more of the time than any other time I remember.
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And those narratives are becoming ever more malleable, as our news sources grow more partisan and filtered.
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German-born Enders insisted Airbus was not bluffing, adopting a more partisan tone than in previous statements.
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It will foster more partisan bitterness and more bad feelings about our political process and news media.
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Both parties, without question, have played a role in making the courts more partisan and overtly political.
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Like nearly everything in the Trump era, Americans' divisions over patriotism have become more partisan, polls suggest.
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And today's Republican politicians, while more partisan than in Nixon's day, remain acutely sensitive to public opinion.
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But at the more partisan event two hours later in Manchester, conservative red meat was in abundance too.
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And purchasers of conservative books like "Understanding Trump" and "Making of the President 2016" are even more partisan.
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And some worry that further activism will make future fights for science funding more difficult and more partisan.
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But Trump's push to make the farm bill more partisan could bring the legislative package to a standstill.
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The difference, he says, is that social movements are more partisan than they used to be (The Atlantic).
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As the Collins proposal gained steam after the defeat of other, more partisan proposals, Democrats discussed opposing it.
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But O'Keefe, whose website describes him as "an award-winning journalist," is more partisan prankster than honest critic.
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With the Supreme Court becoming more partisan and powerful by the year, it may be time for another.
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That's because in key capitals across the West, the Jewish state has become a far more partisan issue.
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Voters told me that instead of more partisan fighting, they needed help to afford medication and doctors' visits.
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" Today's Senate, he continued, is "more partisan, more tribal, more of the time than any other time I remember.
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Incriminations, however, will likely fly from both sides, as Trump will likely appoint a much more partisan Attorney General.
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Franken's speech and the ensuing response was much more partisan than the initial calls for investigation or his resignation.
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They believe that would make the Senate even more partisan and less able to respond to the nation's needs.
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His thesis is that as DC has gotten more partisan, the Republicans bear far more responsibility than the Democrats.
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The Republican Party is now the Trump Party, and that is more partisan/identity than it is just ideology.
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And this time, the situation is likely to be far more intense and far more partisan for several reasons.
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What's more, the GOP has become much more radicalized since the Bush years, and the country much more partisan.
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Or to morph into something more partisan, spraying ammunition at every favorite target and openly delighting in the chaos.
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Go deeper: New Mueller documents link Russia probe and impeachment inquiry Trump impeachment starts more partisan than Bill Clinton's
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But Senator Norris was mistaken about one thing: the voters turn out to be more partisan than the bosses.
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This is the Clinton impeachment redux in a more partisan and poisonous atmosphere and with the party roles reversed.
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But a bigger reason is that, over recent decades, Congress has become both more partisan and more prone to gridlock.
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" He continued, "Some of the comments were sharp and more partisan than a lot of us would like to see.
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This FiveThirtyEight feature sums it up nicely: Supreme Court nominees are simply much more partisan than they used to be.
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A trial will likely spur more partisan bickering, thus undermining the cooperation needed to advance even lower level district judges.
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House Democrats are then expected to move on to a more partisan bill on allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices.
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Letter From Washington No issue has aroused more partisan passion over the past six years than the Affordable Care Act.
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A more open process could lead to more partisan splits and perhaps more bipartisanship, and eventually a more functional Congress.
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"I think other candidates had been more identified as more partisan people — and Jason just doesn't project that," said Carpenter.
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Trump's best hope is the composition of the Supreme Court now -- entirely different than in 1974 and arguably more partisan.
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At the time, he said that perhaps the United States needed "a good 'shutdown'" to force through more partisan priorities.
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Philbin noted that the House's vote to authorize the inquiry was more partisan than during the Nixon and Clinton eras.
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But that vision never gained much traction in mainstream politics, where a more partisan, targeted definition was starting to emerge.
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Clinton's impeachment in 1998 unfolded in a more partisan era than Nixon's and reflected the widening distance between the parties.
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"It surprises me that they didn't pick somebody who was more partisan," Philip Heymann told the Guardian's Lois Beckett in March.
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The political landscape under the Trump administration might have become more partisan than most can remember, even within the Democratic Party.
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In recent years, old-guard senators like Mr. Alexander have given way to brasher, more partisan lawmakers, many from the House.
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C.), a top ally of the president, in a preview of what's to come this week: more partisan bickering (The Hill).
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If Republicans are able to stay united, they could approve a more partisan version of the rules with just 51 votes.
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The press has become more partisan in recent decades with the expansion of cable television and the end of the Fairness Doctrine.
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" (CSPAN) Trump: "The American people want us to get things done for them rather than focus on more and more partisan investigations.
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Even more partisan -- and regional -- conflict flared after Sandy slammed into New York and New Jersey just before the 2012 presidential election.
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And the more partisan the hearings appear, the likelier voters are to process them as only partisan, and back their own team.■
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Even as our society has grown more partisan in recent decades, this vision of the internet has, refreshingly, transcended party and ideology.
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Even in the more partisan House, constructive bipartisanship groups, such as the Problem Solvers Caucus, could swell the ranks of non-blamers.
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But the reaction, particularly across the Republican spectrum, reveals an outrage that appears distinctly selective and sounds much more partisan than principled.
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But as he can most likely attest, Congress has only become more partisan since the failed attempt at immigration compromise in 2013.
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"I don't see how he can escape coming out of it as more partisan," said Mike Thomas, who ran former Republican Sen.
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He was even praised on Twitter by Donald Trump Jr. for taking more partisan positions, unlike former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.
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Illinois, Nebraska and South Dakota are more partisan, but none reflexively inhabit the top 22019 presidential vote percentages like Massachusetts and Vermont.
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Immigration has only become a more partisan issue under the Trump administration, and Congress has been unable to pass even narrow fixes.
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She followed that powerful outfit choice with a more partisan, yet perhaps, equally meaningful pantsuit at her first post-election speech on Wednesday.
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However, data from an ideological measure by FiscalNote shows us the people drafting those policies haven't gotten more partisan, despite Republicans gaining ground.
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The pages with more partisan content (shown in blue and green) consistently beat their mainstream rivals in terms of total engagement from Jan.
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A recent Rasmussen Reports poll shows that 57% of Americans expect politics in Washington to get even more partisan in the coming year.
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You can expect a lot more partisan bickering over what to include and which amendments to accept in the final Senate immigration bill.
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"These Virginians are qualified to vote and they deserve a voice, not more partisan schemes to disenfranchise them," the spokesman, Brian Coy, said.
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The same Pew Study found that over the last thirty years the nation has grown more partisan and Congress has become less effective.
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Republicans, meanwhile, argued that ousting Gardner in favor of a more partisan figure would risk the party's first-in-the-nation primary status.
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But that spirit waned as our country's political climate grew more partisan, fueled by echo chambers in the media and on the Internet.
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The Senate also rejected the more partisan approach in the House, where companion bills include conservative policy riders deemed "poison pills" by Democrats.
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A seasoned practitioner of politics, he was more partisan than many of the encomiums to him since his death on Friday would suggest.
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Bill Nelson, Scott practiced a far more partisan and sharp-elbowed style of politics, of which the new ad campaign is a continuation.
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As the next few years would show, this was an extremely effective strategy, but it shifted American politics into a more partisan paradigm.
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As Google's work force swelled past 100,000 employees and the nation's politics became even more partisan, Google's culture has become a flash point.
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As Google's work force swelled past 100,000 employees and the nation's politics became even more partisan, Google's culture has become a flash point.
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In particular, as David Wasserman noted a few years ago, the urban/rural divide is becoming more partisan and more prominent in American politics.
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" Asked if he was concerned the Judiciary Committee was growing more partisan, he added, "Yes, but I don't know what to do about it.
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Placing the choice of a special prosecutor in the hands of those potentially under investigation would only lead to more partisan pursuits and conclusions.
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Why this matters: just when you thought it couldn't get more divisive, Supreme Court fights are going to likely get nastier and more partisan.
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There are now more partisan hashtags flying around than actual solutions being presented that would get each party's leadership into a room to negotiate.
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ERIC SCHMITT, currently a terrorism and national security correspondent: It accelerated what was already clearly becoming a much more partisan environment on the Hill.
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That may be a symptom of the more partisan environment that Trump faces, according to Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute.
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Yes, Verrit is intended to be a purposefully pro-Clinton source of information in a world that sees media become increasingly more and more partisan.
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The study, which looks at mens' views relative to their wives', shows that when a woman out-earns her husband, the husband becomes more partisan.
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Trump took a liking to Whitaker after he saw him on CNN last year criticizing Mueller and espousing more partisan views about the Russia investigation.
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This once again mirrors the tactics of the Russians: false news and inflamed rhetoric twists actual issues, causes confusion, and leads to more partisan fighting.
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" Stefanik's spokesman, Lenny Alcivar, replied to Krieg's Facebook comment, the Press Republican of Plattsburgh reported, saying that the district didn't need "more partisan, political rhetoric.
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And even some former fans say Mr. Shapiro is a brilliant polemicist, but in a tribal nation, he's just one more partisan mobilizing his troops.
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The company also cited research from Pew that indicated YouTube tends to push users to more popular content over time, rather than more partisan content.
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The final element in this stage of our model takes into account the fact that over the past fifty years America has become significantly more partisan.
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For another, market dynamics are pushing paid-for papers in a more partisan direction, says Charlie Beckett, a media expert at the London School of Economics.
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Fortunately, the Supreme Court will soon have a chance to remedy this situation, through one or more partisan gerrymandering cases that are pending in the courts.
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Republicans control majorities in both the Senate and House, but the House's approach to the election issue has been far more partisan than in the Senate.
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White, an independent, has often found herself caught in the crossfire between more partisan SEC commissioners who have not been able to agree on controversial rules.
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So in the end, it appears that a Texas lawmaker who was expected to lead a bipartisan investigation produced a report more partisan than anyone expected.
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" Mr. Sanders's campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, took a more partisan approach, saying, "What happened in Arizona is part of a pattern of voter disenfranchisement by Republicans.
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"The fact that ideological lines on the court have coincided with party lines since 2010 has given the court a more partisan image," Professor Baum said.
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Israel has become a more partisan issue, and polls show a majority of Democrats in favor of some economic sanctions or other action against Israeli settlements.
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On first glance, these two trends contradict: How can the electorate become both more partisan in its voting behavior and more independent in its party membership?
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Some Iowans, however, held firmer, more partisan opinions about the ongoing Russia investigations being conducted by the FBI as well as the Senate and House Intelligence committees.
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It's probably not a coincidence that environmental perspectives became a lot more partisan as the Republican Party became a lot more tied to the evangelical Protestant community.
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James Tierney, who fought the Reagan administration on acid rain prevention as Maine's Democratic attorney general, said the legal fights have grown more partisan over the years.
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"I think as the last few weeks have developed, it made the impeachment process from the House look more and more partisan all the time," said Sen.
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While Americans' views on the economy have always been linked to political leanings, they've become even more partisan, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Wednesday.
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The near-unanimity expected from both sides on Wednesday means Trump's impeachment will be much more partisan than that targeting former President Clinton in the late 90s.
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He is a registered Republican and argued in a 85033 book that more partisan districts create better representation for voters than competitive ones, according to Mother Jones.
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But the alliance has become a more partisan issue, with Democrats showing strong enthusiasm and Republican support softening, according to a survey by the Ronald Reagan Institute.
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There's a separate literature on to what extent have people become more ideological, more polarized, and more partisan, and I think that there's good evidence that they have.
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In many cases, if charter advocates want the movement to grow and better serve more students, then they would be wise to consider taking a more partisan approach.
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The lack of respect for expertise, such as the attacks on the Congressional Budget Office over its dismal scoring of health-care reform, only makes Washington more partisan.
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Like the presidency, the chief usher's role has evolved, and Harleth's hire suggests that the position, once above the political fray, is becoming more insular and more partisan.
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Democrats could lose one or two Senate seats, continuing a Republican Senate that is even further to the right and even more partisan than the GOP majority today.
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The media is facing questions about whether it is adapting quickly enough to the fast-changing landscape, in which the news itself appears to have become more partisan.
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Which means the new majority might be tempted to overreach and, like Mr. Gingrich's professed revolutionaries, wind up coming across as more partisan and prurient than public-spirited.
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Moreover, in today's more partisan age, the president-led model of policy formation may relegate White House initiatives into bucket number one and make finding bipartisan consensus unlikely.
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The favorite of White House Counsel Donald McGahn, Kavanaugh is also considered a safer pick than some of the more partisan choices who were on the president's shortlist.
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After Booker opposed DeVos for Education Secretary in 2017, however, some wondered whether he was turning over a new, more partisan leaf in preparation for a presidential campaign.
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But the poll of 261,245 registered voters, conducted between March 17 and March 21, found much more partisan reactions to protest situations involving either violent protesters or Donald Trump.
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When the Medicare part D program went through—on a much more partisan basis than it originally started—Democrats participated in the technical corrections so that it would work.
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Simple majorities help prevent this kind of gridlock, but they could also carry the risks of making budgets more partisan documents, since you need fewer people to pass them.
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As with the more partisan cases, Trump relied on personal appeals instead of following his modern predecessors in heeding recommendations from the Justice Department's Office of the Pardon Attorney.
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"They are clearly a much more partisan group," Iram Ali, campaign director at MoveOn, said of AIPAC, adding that it's "untenable" for progressives to align themselves with the group.
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And he outpaced two more partisan Republicans in a June primary, finishing with 28 percent of the vote and earning a place in the runoff election against Ms. Roby.
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Instead, the GOP leader chose to put a far more partisan stamp on the beginning of the trial than the 100-0 vote that kicked off Clinton's impeachment trial.
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Lenny Alcivar, a spokesman for Stefanik, fired back at Krieg's comment at the time, saying the "district doesn't need more partisan, political rhetoric," according to the Press Republican newspaper.
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The tone of the letter however was far more partisan in tone than legalistic, reflecting that the battle over Trump's fate will now come down to a vicious political fight.
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Paying attention to the difference between these two types of processes is important because caucuses attract a very different set of citizens -- more ideological, more consistent and more partisan participants.
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Apparently Trump, much like countless past presidential candidates before him, wants to begin pivoting from more partisan positions in the primary to more moderate ones to help in the general election.
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There's a glaring cautionary answer to be found across the pond, in Britain, where the media is avowedly more partisan, especially in the tabloid newspapers that continue to hold great sway.
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Thomas's nomination thrilled conservatives, but the battle to place him on the court amid sexual-harassment allegations set the stage for more partisan judicial confirmation battles in the years to come.
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If the latter triumphs, if it is able to muddy and distract enough to make impeachment just another Mueller, just more partisan white noise, we will cross a kind of rubicon.
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NT: This isn't the subject of your book, but I often wonder whether there is any democratic country in the world that has not become more partisan in the past decade.
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They can count on more partisan media outlets and direct social media communication to get their message to their supporters — without having to answer a lot of awkward questions about wonky details.
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Perhaps the single most important fact about American politics is this: the people who participate are more ideological and more partisan, as well as angrier and more fearful, than those who don't.
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When the subscribers become the de facto owners, it can only lead in one direction, which is that paying for news will give us a media that is more partisan, not less.
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There are many good studies about the more partisan media that show how listeners and viewers are caught in the world of the pundits who spin the news through their particular perspective.
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Soviet communism was a useful enemy, bringing together political opponents in the U.S. Once that threat vanished, conservative ire turned inwards, fueling the ever more partisan politics we've seen since the 1990s.
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Early voters tend to be older and more partisan, and many choose to cast absentee ballots by mail, while others prefer to go to polling sites during special evening and weekend hours.
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As our national politics has become more partisan than ever, it falls upon us as state legislators to take the lead in returning education policymaking to its legacy as a bipartisan priority.
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For most members of Congress who have safe seats, the biggest worry is a primary challenge, and that will drive you toward the more partisan voters who turn out in primary elections.
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He will have to manage a more partisan State House, where Democrats gained some seats this year, and a more evenly divided State Senate, which traditionally has acted as a moderating chamber.
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And one study, by Jonathan Mummolo and Clayton Nall, argues that it would be hard for most people to sort into places that are more partisan once they've satisfied those economic criteria.
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But the rift between the mainstream media and more partisan news organizations has grown starker in the nearly four weeks since Mr. Trump took office, reflecting a widening political and ideological rift.
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CNN wants to be "the most trusted name in news," and likes to suggest it is on the objective, high road compared to more partisan competitors at MSNBC and Fox News Channel.
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But when they're evaluating something political — let's say, the effectiveness of gun control measures — the trend is that the better participants are at math, the more partisan they are in their responses.
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Investors would be wary of more partisan infighting that could hurt the chances of the White House and Congress working together on an infrastructure bill and a plan to raise the debt ceiling.
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But if they become more partisan and cut one of the core purposes of the agency, Earth sciences, then you may find me supporting the legislation aimed at limiting presidential influence over NASA.
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"I didn't like some of the more partisan references and the tone, particularly with some of my colleagues," Mr. Flake told an audience in Boston, singling out Judge Kavanaugh's treatment of Ms. Klobuchar.
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Republicans and Democrats oppose legalized abortion in Tennessee in roughly equal numbers, though they are more partisan in their support or opposition to Judge Kavanaugh, according to a recent poll by Gravis Marketing.
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Imagine if Democrats lose not only the White House, but also the House of Representatives, allowing a government completely controlled by Republicans ready to wreak even more partisan havoc on states like mine.
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The 220006-member committee includes staunch conservatives and leading liberals, and is a larger and more partisan panel than the House Intelligence Committee, which on Tuesday released the report of its impeachment findings.
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And the more partisan the fight becomes, the more pressure will build on Democrats both to hold the line for the DREAMers and their base, and to fold to keep the government running.
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In 2011, he'd written the book warning that Facebook and Google's personalization tools would drive us to become ever more partisan by showing us only the news and information with which we already agreed.
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Jeff Sessions, emerged from his confirmation hearings largely unscathed, facing tough questions about his past and saying that as attorney general, he would eschew the more partisan posture he has taken as a policymaker.
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But now it will have to compete in those negotiations with Hatch-Brady, adding more partisan acrimony to the mix and muddying the future for any affirmative steps to stabilize the individual insurance markets.
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While the original bill didn't contain some of the more partisan provisions in the new version, Democrats opposed the initial package because of its cost and because they weren't involved in drafting the measure.
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Taking responsibility for policymaking away from a technocratic elite and entrusting it to a broader community of engaged citizens would only lead to more partisan conflict, assuming that such a program were even workable.
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But they anticipated that this fight would be nastier, more brutal and more partisan than the one last year for Justice Neil M. Gorsuch because the direction of the court would be at stake.
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As people become more partisan, more issues are being taken as markers of the kind of person you are: in Britain, the country's membership of the European Union; in America, guns, trade, even American football.
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And the politics of constant crisis will mean even more gamesmanship, more partisan aggression, more rule-bending and norm-breaking, and—in a worst-case scenario—fewer guardrails on the country sliding into actual authoritarianism.
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So, why do people talk about this rabbit hole effect — you know, I went to watch one video about President Trump and now I'm just getting a stream of recommendations of increasingly more partisan content.
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This raises the possibility that support for Israel -- or at least its government -- could become a more partisan affair in Washington that over many years could end up harming the interests of the Jewish state.
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An aide to McConnell would not comment on whether Republicans would employ a more partisan parliamentary maneuver to accomplish the change - one that could be done without any Democratic support - if his initial gambit fails.
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Mitt Romney (R-UT) was among the earliest Republicans to come out against Cain, saying he worried Cain's presence would make the Fed a more partisan body, given the former executive's longstanding political support for Trump.
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This bears repeating: The people who say they're free from either party today are more partisan in their voting habits than the people who said they were strong loyalists of a single party in the '220s.
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Using that metric to compare the Republican map of the Wisconsin Assembly with nearly every other state redistricting plan from 1972 to 2014, the plaintiffs deemed the Wisconsin plan more partisan than all but four others.
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People tend to reject facts that undermine their ideological premises; more informed voters are often more partisan; Americans don't trust the media, and Republicans (Trump supporters in particular) don't consume much media that isn't explicitly conservative.
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Democrats say this will reduce gridlock on the commission (something that former FEC commissioners of both parties have complained has paralyzed the body from doing its job), but conservative groups say it will make it more partisan.
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According to the study, "conservative media is more partisan and more insular than the left," though both liberals and conservatives had an affinity for highly biased sites, especially when it came to what they shared on Facebook.
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This is a pernicious and self-reinforcing effect of gridlock, resulting in more partisan regulations than would have occurred if the president and Congress had stopped acting like petulant children and agreed to behave maturely and responsibly.
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Mr. Schumer is confident that he will have a strong recruit to challenge Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, who has been hugely popular in her state but is facing headwinds in a more partisan political environment.
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It was a temporary reprieve, as it would turn out, but it showcased Mr. McCain as a creature of the Senate willing to put what he saw as the fate of the chamber above more partisan interests.
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Despite the large number of voters who now register as independent, most reliably lean to one side or the other and are actually more partisan than the least engaged members of either the Democratic or Republican parties.
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Issues like marijuana taxes and progressive taxation (for example, Colorado's bill to go from a flat income tax to a graduated one) are more dependent on that higher voter turnout, since they are more partisan issues, Williamson said.
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Pushed along by Facebook and other social media sites, the press has been getting more fractured and more partisan, and people are less and less likely to trust outlets that aren't telling them what they want to hear.
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They fear a Copyright Office that would prove to be more politicized, more partisan and more likely to take sides in substantive policy debates, rather than serving as a neutral arbiter concerned mostly with competently executing its duties.
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Mitt Romney (R-UT) was among one of the earliest Republicans to come out against Cain, saying he worries Cain's presence would make the Fed a more partisan body, given the former executive's longstanding political support for Trump.
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For instance, views on the economy have become more partisan: Democrats are less likely to have positive feelings about the economy while Trump is in office than they were when Republican President Ronald Reagan was in the White House.
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And there were already seven groups — a mix of health care advocacy organizations and more partisan Democratic efforts — on the air in Nevada assailing the Republican health care overhaul, according to a Republican ad buyer tracking the ad traffic.
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The Trump administration has been mired in scandal week after week, but the current chaos seems to be having an effect on American voters across party lines — a clear shift from early polling on the reports that showed more partisan reactions.
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Today's Congress is much more partisan and much more ideological, featuring many members who have no personal loyalty to Trump but who can nevertheless be expected to stand by him through thick and thin, thanks to broader partisan and policy objectives.
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During his Thursday monologue, the late night host argued that continued funding for the health care program should have been voted on and approved separately rather than lumped in with other more partisan proposals, such as increased funding for the military.
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For sure, President Trump is in the Oval Office in a different era: the middle of American politics has eroded; both parties are more partisan, less willing to compromise, and more subject to pressures from their left and right flanks.
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But in the age of Trump's attacks on "fake news," as American politics become ever more partisan and nasty, the press is clearly hungry for honorable politicians like McCain who, however flawed he may be, engaged with reporters in good faith.
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The moderate justices will be incentivized to work with these peers to build consensus decisions, but the ideological stances taken by the more partisan justices on tough issues of the day will also provide strong guideposts for shaping future decisions.
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In 2014, in a more partisan push, Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee used it to obtain and publicly release tax information as part of an investigation into whether the I.R.S. discriminated against conservative entities seeking tax-exempt status.
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Since then, however, he and his staff have been more equivocal, much like he was after a similar televised meeting with lawmakers on immigration that seemed to open the door to a compromise only to lead to more partisan crossfire.
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Herndon I'd say Washington's deference to civility and decorum is putting it at increasing odds with the rest of the country, which is more partisan and enraged Rogers Oh, I think it's safe to say Washington is also partisan and enraged.
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In their place are more partisan products and aggregators, more niche publications, greater availability of unfiltered (and often inaccurate) news through social platforms — and more readers and viewers in more places than most of us could have imagined a generation ago.
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Two decades later, we have another impeachment trial -- one that has already gotten off to a far more partisan start (the two sides can't even agree on a set of rules to begin the trial) than it did in 1999.
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The ruling party is usually disadvantaged in midterm elections, and after two years of more partisan drama and chaos in Congress than actual legislating, many of these lawmakers are going home with little to show for themselves and the party.
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Democrats and some Republicans acknowledge it will drastically change the Senate into a more partisan institution, even though Democrats themselves used the nuclear option in 2013 over the protests of Republicans to make a similar rule change for all other presidential nominations.
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It's not a coincidence that this is occurring at a time when many mainstream media outlets are facing significant economic challenges, and when data from Pew and other organizations show that Americans themselves are also more partisan today than in recent decades.
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House Democratic leaders are planning to move first on a package of "low-hanging fruit" drug pricing bills that are smaller measures that have some bipartisan support, before later moving on to more partisan proposals like allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices.
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And in a system like that, the parties inevitably become more partisan because everything is driven by just a few people, and the leaders in Congress spend a lot of their time figuring out ways to avoid putting their members on the record.
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Fascinatingly, Gallup found very little variation in support for a popular vote between Democrats, Republicans, and independents in 2013; back in 2000 and 2001, in the wake of Al Gore's popular vote win and Electoral College loss, the breakdown was more partisan.
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Ms. Feinstein's dominant position comes despite opposition from some Democrats, who contend it is time to dispatch a younger, less moderate, more partisan member to the front lines in Washington, and amid criticism that her age is beginning to take a toll.
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In a 2006 paper, political scientists Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels found that more-informed Republican voters were more likely to say, falsely, that Bill Clinton had increased the budget deficit than less-informed voters were; they had received more partisan cues.
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Smith believes the combination of emboldened party leaders, a more partisan political environment fanned by outside influences on lawmakers and the growing homogeneity of political parties that has seen cross-party coalitions disappear have added up to a moment of fevered confrontation on Capitol Hill.
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" It's an interesting contrast to our current political climate because it tells "a story in which liberals who ended up lamenting some of this [polarization] in the Bush and now Trump eras have reasons to want to make politics in the United States more partisan.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Any hope for a break in Illinois' long-running budget stalemate devolved into more partisan bickering and deeper divisions on Wednesday as the state legislature ended its spring session without a deal on a spending plan for a third year in a row.
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TV. But, despite the increasingly polarizing political environment, Gray says the Supreme Court itself hasn't become more partisan, calling it "the most collegial group of human beings in Washington, D.C," and argues Kavanuagh's presence on the court won't make that much of a difference.
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"The recent political climate has really pushed me to become much more partisan in a way that I've never been before, because I am not happy with the current presidential administration," said Carrie Poehlein, a college guidance counselor at a private school in Indianapolis.
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But the aims of the latest campaigns appeared to be similar to those of past operations on the social network: to distribute false news that might cause confusion among people, and to alter people's thinking to become more partisan or pro-government on various issues.
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Russia fulfilling its goals once more Partisan uproar over the new claims, meanwhile, suggests that the alleged operation is again delivering for Russia on its intended goals: sowing distrust in the US system and turning Americans against themselves in a way that weakens national unity.
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There is no more partisan issue in Washington than health care and yet here we are with serious bipartisan plans on the table in the House and in the Senate, with recent reports indicating the Alexander-Murray plan has the 60 votes necessary to pass.
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Mr. Paul, now the mayor of Sandy Springs, Ga., said Mr. Price had become more partisan during his last few years in the Legislature, when the Republicans saw an opportunity to tip the balance of power in their favor for the first time since Reconstruction.
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"In a state in a Country that is becoming ever more partisan, partisan in its politics, partisan in its religion, partisan in its economic opportunities, there is one concept, there is one ideal, that cuts across and can bring people together, and that's justice," he said.
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A longtime moderate who's pushed back on President Donald Trump about the government shutdown and tax cuts in the past, Stefanik's rhetoric has become more partisan as it relates to impeachment — and that's garnered positive feedback from some factions of the party, including the president himself.
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But there is an explanation for why many members of the Senate are talking about the rule change as an almost personal affront: It is a step toward making the Senate operate in a much more partisan manner, looking a lot more like the House of Representatives.
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After splitting from The Ringer to pursue more partisan content and position themselves as activists on the left, Favreau, Lovett, and Vietor, told Recode's Kara Swisher they wouldn't use ad revenue to pay themselves (though the shows are ad-supported), nor would they seek venture funding.
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By the numbers: While America's political discourse has gotten more partisan in recent years, actual laws passed by Congress have not, according to forthcoming research described to Axios by James Curry, political scientist at the University of Utah, and Frances Lee, politics professor at the University of Maryland.
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Let more-partisan pundits dissect the motivations of those Republicans in Congress who voted more than 22010 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act when Barack Obama was President, but now are treading far more lightly to repeal, but not replace, Obamacare with Donald Trump in the White House.
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Given the current incentives, more staff could just mean more time freed up to fundraise, more partisan speeches to deliver, while longer workweeks means more time in DC to articulate the party message and hold roll call votes on amendments designed to be deployed in the next election.
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"That's one of the reasons why FDA was so slow to act to address the issues of e-cigarettes, and one of the reasons the issue has become more partisan in Congress than it has traditionally been," Myers said, adding that further action is needed from lawmakers as well.
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Only very rarely in American history has one party held more than two-thirds of the seats in the Senate (it hasn't happened since 1967), and the more partisan American politics the less likely it is that sixty-seven senators can be rounded up to convict anyone, of anything.
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Part of the reason we have the problems we have politically is not so much because of the rules of the Senate or the rules of the House, it's that we're sending much more partisan people to Washington, DC, who see the word 'compromise' as a dirty word.
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Flashback: It wasn't this stark 21 years ago, for the 1998 vote launching the impeachment of William J. Clinton: 31 Democrats joined all Republicans in setting up a formal process for considering impeachment, Paul Kane points out in the WashPost: "Look, it's just a more partisan time," Rep.
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The NGA confab is supposed to be a bipartisan forum for governors to work through challenges facing state governments, but this year's event couldn't come against a more partisan backdrop: on the heels of Iowa and President Donald Trump's impeachment acquittal, and just ahead of Tuesday's New Hampshire Democratic primary.
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It might look that way on "the traditional political spectrum," but in Hayes' view, it's more accurate to see the spectrum as a "hardcore 15 percent" on the left and another 15 percent on the right that's "more partisan than ideological" and will root for their party no more what.
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My guess is that six months from now, we're gonna see that what this change has done is helped high-quality places — like, for example, Vox or Wired — but it's also hurt the more partisan, and the less accurate ... Because they're not gonna not have news stories distributed on Facebook.
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More from Sheera Frenkel and Nicholas Fandos of the NYT: The aims of the latest campaigns appeared to be similar to those of past operations on the social network: to distribute false news that might cause confusion among people, and to alter people's thinking to become more partisan or pro-government on various issues.
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The differences are grist for competing partisan interpretations: Liberals can argue that Clinton survived the process and Nixon didn't because Clinton's crimes were minor things and Nixon's met the "high crimes" bar, while conservatives can argue that Clinton survived and Nixon didn't because Republicans were more honorable in 1974 and Democrats more partisan in 1998.
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The atmosphere in the nation's capital and throughout the country is far more partisan than in earlier decades, and Kavanaugh would succeed centrist conservative Justice Anthony Kennedy, who held the key vote on the nine-member bench for abortion rights and gay marriage, to name just two of the many social policy issues Kennedy controlled.
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Some have compared this to the infamous conference committee process Republicans used to finalize their Medicare Part D bill back in 2003, in which a moderate bill passed by the Senate with bipartisan support was tossed aside in favor of a more partisan bill crafted by the pharmaceutical industry and preferred by GOP leaders.
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But the funeral service in Baltimore was a more partisan affair, with no Republican speakers and a who's who of Democratic heavyweights — Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama — singing Cummings's praises and drawing not-so-implicit contrasts between him and the president, who had made virulent, racist attacks against Cummings and his city in recent months.
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Patrick LeahyPatrick Joseph LeahyAppropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid House panel investigating decision to resume federal executions Graham moves controversial asylum bill through panel; Democrats charge he's broken the rules MORE (D-Vt.), the panel's ranking member, praised Shelby for working cooperatively with Democrats on compromise bills, and jabbed the House for its more partisan approach.
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Part of the argument made, the lawmaker said, was that barring entry for the two House Democrats would actually bolster the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and further push relations with Israel into a more partisan realm, a potential danger for a country that has long had exceedingly strong support from both parties on Capitol Hill.
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"California, like much of the country, was becoming more and more polarized and more and more partisan, so several years ago, a number of centrists in both parties thought that by implementing a 'top two' primary it would encourage more centrist candidates to run and succeed," said Dan Schnur, director of the University of Southern California Unruh Institute of Politics.
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I do presume a Medicare-for-All system would pass on a party-line vote with only Democrat support and could see them trying to expand abortion coverage--either directly in a law or through regulation like many abortion coverage issues have been changed--at the same time since that issue has also grown much more partisan in the past decade.
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"Switching gears in this way, I think, is going to be a challenge for both sides — to sort of move away from some of the open hand-to-hand combat we've had to a more measured tone in which both sides sort of restrain their more partisan impulses and look at some very specific issues very carefully," said a senior Democratic Senate aide.
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Unlike special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE, a former FBI director appointed by presidents in both parties and confirmed by broad bipartisan majorities to his previous posts, Barr was picked by Trump to lead the Justice Department and is viewed as a more partisan figure.
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Christopher CoonsChristopher (Chris) Andrew CoonsThe United States broken patent system is getting worse Biden faces scrutiny for his age from other Democrats Democrats press FBI for details on Kavanaugh investigation MORE (D-Del.) contacted former members of the Gang of 14 in a frantic effort to come up with another deal over the weekend, but he said the Senate has become significantly more partisan over the last decade.
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It could be that the Trump-era crisis of the evangelical mind is a parochial phenomenon, confined to theologians and academics and pundits and a few outlier congregations — and that it is this group, not the cultural Christians who voted enthusiastically for Trump, who represent the real evangelical penumbra, which could float away and leave evangelicalism less intellectual, more partisan, more racially segregated ... but as a cultural phenomenon, not all that greatly changed.
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