Patrick Looney Quotes
I would like to caution you about the use of the word “balance.” …. It a red-hot word that is divisive.
Partisanship and culture wars had reached an extreme point at that time. Even words like “balance” and “moderation” had become anathema to some of the extremists.
Patrick Looney, Assistant Director for Physical Sciences and Engineering, U.S. Department of Energy (Republican), Statement to a Department of Energy advisory committee, 2003
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Gingrich, a hyper partisan politician who himself was a polarizing figure himself, considered any objective that might gain any partisan advantage at all. Once he actually shut down the government by not appropriating any money in the House to embarrass President Clinton, but this backfired and thereafter Gingrich was pushed out of Congress by his own party.
