Indeed Jack was a warm friend and a gallant partisan.
But now the new partnership risks falling victim to partisan infighting in Washington.
Politicians from both parties immediately sought ways to gain partisan advantage from the bipartisan event.
Speaking from the Rose Garden less than 24 hours after Mr. Obama's overwhelming victory, Mr. Bush, who is no stranger to partisan battles, struck a distinctly non-partisan tone.
For all the partisan bluster surrounding last week's release of President Obama's proposed 2012 budget, it reflects a longstanding bipartisan consensus to not threaten seniors.
I knew I had to have their support to succeed, and they knew the American people would hold us all accountable for breaking the partisan gridlock in Washington.
The summer governors’ conference, held in Idaho, was marked by an unusual partisan fight over a fund-raising letter for the Republican governors signed by President Reagan.
Mr Dion, a former environment minister, portrayed the deal as a non-partisan gesture designed to give the increasingly popular green agenda more prominence.
The second benefit, according to analysis done by the Joint Committee on Taxation, another non-partisan outfit, is that it will lift salaries for many Americans and raise tax revenues.
A Republican presidential candidate loses the popular vote in a disputed election, but wins the White House after months of partisan wrangling. It's not a lie - history does repeat itself.
Mr Nishioka’s proposal (as leader of the house, he says he is non-partisan) is to scrap the prefectural system, and replace it with proportional representation in nine supersized voting areas.
But Douglas Elmendorf, the head of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), observes wryly that “the closer a public plan is to a private plan, the less the gain.”
Well? In that same spirit? I say to president-elect bush that what remains of partisan rancor must now be put aside? And may god bless his stewardship of this country.
