But the raging debate over President Clinton is only one factor in the public's growing alienation from a system more attuned to partisan tactics than the general good.

But Mr. Bush, of Texas, brushed aside suggestions that the Legislature's involvement had an appearance of partisan strong-arm tactics.

As their recent behavior suggests, some of the party's most prominent members have stooped to using partisan tactics for political gain-at the expense of U.S. security.

The Bloomberg campaign's approach to confronting Mr. Ognibene also suggests a willingness to flirt with the scrappy partisan tactics of Queens Republicans.

By changing the issue from Iraq to partisan parliamentary tactics, his leadership team threatens to muddy the message of any anti-escalation resolution the Senate may eventually pass.

If Mr. Hastert hopes for reconciliation, he needs to renounce such partisan tactics, especially since Republicans have only a six-vote majority in the next Congress.

She was the one who made sure he didn't let his conscience get in the way of brutal partisan tactics: killing everyone, children too, if there was so much as an unfriendly shot.

This decision therefore constitutes a scathing rejection of the partisan tactics that deprived me of parliamentary immunity.

Italian forces were not used to partisan tactics and while German forces attacked the city, the battalion forces remained static in their positions giving the Germans the opportunity to encircle them.