Why has the momentum toward democracy and international comity slowed?
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But that kind of comity doesn't exist in politics anymore.
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Disenfranchisement in the name of comity is no democratic solution.
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Comity, dignity and Trump cannot exist in the same frame.
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Trump is shredding longstanding norms of etiquette and interbranch comity.
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Under its rules, the Senate shows comity to the House in waiting until the roster of managers is sent, just as the House shows comity to the Senate in submitting an impeachment without conditions.
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It was about more than just comity between CEOs and analysts.
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It is a demonstration of civility and comity between the branches.
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There's very little continuity or comity in the Trump White House.
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The occasion should be a good one for mutual comity and friendship.
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Washington has many reasons to want to promote comity within the region.
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He was a model of independence, nonpartisan comity, graciousness, and good humor.
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To call "bullshit" is to renounce compromise or a search for comity.
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But amid the reign of chaos there are some signs of comity.
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Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace.
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So let's stop all this comity and find something to fight about.
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Still, outside of national games, moments of comity tend to be brief.
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The tolerance and comity learned from those friendships can last a lifetime.
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That may help restore comity and morale at the National Security Council.
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But it hasn't taken much to puncture the veneer of campaign comity.
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For those dreaming of bipartisan comity, the Rockwell museum is a bittersweet place.
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Bipartisan comity had given way to win-at-all-costs partisanship, he warned.
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The supermajority threshold is—or was—key to fostering comity in the Senate.
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The Hill: Trump veers between comity, confrontation at raucous State of the Union.
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Above all, it shares the same disdain for comity, civility and ordinary decency.
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That hearing, the inquiry's first, was the committee's last moment of public comity.
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One of them invokes Bob Hope as an example of cross-aisle comity.
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It makes governing difficult and comity with the other party all but impossible.
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Trump's previous bilateral sessions were marked by comity and a focus on shared priorities.
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The object of the meeting should be to reaffirm the comity of the Senate.
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He lays bare his emotions in ways that disrupt tidy narratives about celebrity comity.
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I think there are better ways to build comity than with somebody else's money.
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Open friction is no longer so easily subsumed by the almighty virtue of comity.
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But he mistakes the comity of the era as personal when it was structural.
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Obama, like Bill Clinton before him, used judicial nominations as an opportunity for bipartisan comity.
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Yes, but with a comity that is unlikely, given the political and media personalities involved.
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Such missives are unproductive and unhelpful in sustaining comity between the Committee and the Department.
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I think implicitly, people often believe the alternative to polarization is agreement, compromise, civility, comity.
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Over the course of 10 days, we exchanged our various perspectives with comity and ease.
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He was known for his bipartisan comity, reaching across the aisle to advance his agenda.
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Of course, "we got things done" is a fine musing, as is the idea of comity.
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Will all those expressions of comity fall by the wayside when the meet onstage in Detroit?
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And given Trump's utter moral bankruptcy, he's also far less deserving of their comity and collaboration.
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How can we reverse course and retrace our steps toward some semblance of comity and restraint?
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Finally, a peace offering extracted by threats and insults isn't likely to result in genuine comity.
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The February 25 debate saw all semblance of comity or composure collapse in the Democratic field.
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"The CFTC should operate on the basis of comity, not uniformity, with overseas regulators," Giancarlo said.
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The news today is full of predictions about whether Trump can deliver his call for comity.
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The disruption of political comity (to the extent there was any) could hardly be more complete.
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But it is difficult to recall any like last night that displayed an utter absence of comity.
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But he said the principles of comity and stare decisis would still ward off repeat derivative litigation.
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That grand act of comity will be the first step in reconciling the Clinton and Sanders camps.
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As a matter of comity, countries that send immigrants here should be willing to take them back.
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He takes the fight directly to Democrats, unlike previous Republican presidential candidates who preferred comity over controversy.
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Each one, in its own way, shifted the idea of what country-rap comity could sound like.
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Priding himself on his comity with his Republican colleagues, Biden set up the rules to favor Thomas.
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But in the nation's capital these days, the rules of political comity are meant to be broken.
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Regulate guns in any way and we lose justice, liberty and comity, crushed by an instant tyranny.
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In her speech on November 7th, Ms Kramp-Karrenbauer repeated the customary pieties of Franco-German comity.
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Saying today's divisiveness "deeply concerns me," he recalled Johnson's appealing for comity before a joint session of Congress.
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The former vice president seems to see comity and decency as the antidotes to the fractious Trump era.
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There is no law that forces a losing candidate to concede defeat — only a bipartisan tradition of comity.
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"You can't talk about comity and working together and give a speech that is so divisive." https://t.
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Although technology companies have their differences, a spirit of comity prevails among its leaders in moments of crisis.
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The angry exchange shattered, at least for now, the relative comity that had marked the Democratic presidential primary.
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The display of comity continued during the official "family photo," when the seven leaders posed for the cameras.
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"What's the half-life?" asked Senator Roger Wicker, Republican of Mississippi, appraising how long the comity might last.
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In December, House Democrats and Senate Republicans agreed to repeal both, in a rare act of bipartisan comity.
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He credited the president with having "strengthened our negotiating position," but said gestures of comity were also important.
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We must respect each other again in an atmosphere of shared facts and shared values, comity, and good faith.
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Republicans, however, say Booker is breaching Senate traditions of comity for the sake of his own his presidential ambitions.
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An angry tweet or an unguarded comment could undo the tone of comity that Trump strove for on Monday.
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I would assume, on the basis of comity, that the President certainly is not going to abuse his discretion.
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That comity has broken down this year in the House, even in the normally more congenial Armed Services Committee.
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But this is about much more than one trip and much more than any comity between heads of state.
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In doing so, the DCMS prioritized the acquisition and publication of the Facebook documents over international norms of comity.
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It would be hilarious if the consequences for federal employees and comity in the West were not so great.
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Mr. Zuma is a member of the African National Congress, the party of Nelson Mandela and post-apartheid comity.
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They will reminisce over the comity and civility that permeated both Houses up to and including the Reagan presidency.
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During one of the longest State of the Union addresses on record, there were some fleeting moments of comity.
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"Brexit" and Donald J. Trump have doused a rag with formaldehyde and placed it over the face of comity.
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"Comity" has become a nostalgic weasel word, but you can't help but be struck by it in the 1973 proceedings.
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While courts should take into account principles of international comity, this is not a factor that should override judicial scrutiny.
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Still, Schiff says his top priority as chairman would be to return a semblance of bipartisan comity to the panel.
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From Africa to Europe, North Korean diplomats exploit their consular posts to launder money at the expense of international comity.
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But even as Republicans fumed at being sidelined, many in Washington were skeptical that the moment of comity would last.
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The two discussed Mr. Franken's new book, "Giant of the Senate," in which he describes Congress's tradition of bipartisan comity.
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So to now see the Clinton trial held up as an example of fairness and bipartisan comity can be frustrating.
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What they really want is a return to the past—a golden age of political comity before party rivalries intensified.
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But his new proposal -- unveiled on Tuesday -- designed to bring comity and bipartisanship back to the Senate makes no sense.
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But a deadly Taliban attack on the U.S. military base in Bagram just hours earlier undermined his message of comity.
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Don't force yourself to listen to people spouting hate against you and your family in the name of civil comity.
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"They were really nervous about objecting to routine and procedure because it might disrupt the comity of the body," Wikler said.
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It's hard for McConnell to complain about Trump violating longstanding traditions of decency and comity when he himself has done so.
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With this unilateral action, the historic and unprecedented comity that has existed between the Committee and the Department has been breached.
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But Schumer's leadership, according to most of the experts I've spoken to, still fosters something arguably more important: intra-party comity.
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Overall it's a nice piece of work, a credit to all involved — relative to national politics, a friggin' miracle of comity.
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Democracy depends on customs and norms as well as written rules; civility and comity as well as up-or-down votes.
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Leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee, while maintaining bipartisan comity, have sought to tamp down expectations about what they might find.
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It means reinvigorating some of our institutions and founding new ones to transmit the basic elements of civilization and social comity.
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What would it take for the Senate to restore the comity of that time and reclaim its critical role in legislating?
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From a normative standpoint, this evolution is not necessarily a bad thing (though the collapse of comity is tough to watch).
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It asks and answers familiar questions, dwells of topics of reliable comity, and stresses fellow feeling rather than sources of disagreement.
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"If this is true, this is a serious departure of comity between the executive and legislative branches of our government," Lowey said.
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But, even by the Trump administration's blown-out standards, this week was a wild swing between the poles of comity and crassness.
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The law, signed by President Bill Clinton, passed both houses of Congress overwhelmingly in a rare show of feel-good bipartisan comity.
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That outward comity stands in contrast to the obvious friction between the Trump administration and longstanding American allies in Europe and elsewhere.
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Here's our TV critic's take on Mr. Trump's address: The president took a stab at comity, but he only got partway there.
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Prone to endless laments of the lack of comity in Congress, the D.C. press corps applauded the display of unity in Washington.
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As president he opposed the Iraq war, sought a 'United Europe of States' and cultivated comity between the left and the right.
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But contributing to the lack of comity between the parties, Schumer was one of six Democrats to vote against the GOP leader's spouse.
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Somewhat exceptional in a Washington riven by hyper-partisan politics and dysfunctional gridlock, the Africa constituency has long been characterized by bipartisan comity.
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The unfortunate fact of current political life is that the measure of comity that was envisioned by the Founding Fathers is nowhere present.
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Republicans also hailed the agreement as a rare show of comity on an issue that has practically been defined by partisan bickering. Rep.
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"Making such litigation available to domestic but not foreign plaintiffs is hardly solicitous of international comity or respectful of foreign interests," she wrote.
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Some fetishize "get-alongism," feting those who promise to calm the horses and restore comity in the political debate as leaders America needs.
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"A president should demonstrate the essential qualities of honesty and integrity, and elevate the national discourse with comity and mutual respect," Romney wrote.
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The comity of 25 years ago doesn't work with this specific president who is trying to tear down all of our democratic institutions.
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Rather than calls for comity from political leaders like Mr. Grassley, a feeling of apprehension has pervaded the highest levels of American politics.
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In an earlier era of relative comity and good faith, the blue-slip tradition may have helped to ensure that advice was considered.
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With Mr. Trump becoming the "madman" that Ms. Gessen argues Mr. Putin only puts on, the results for geopolitical comity are truly terrifying.
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And no editorial board has asked him to cease his attacks on her for the sake of greater party comity and human dignity.
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There was no grand strategy, Republicans said, just a burgeoning anger that Warren was destroying whatever vestige of comity remains in the Senate.
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Where Mr. Biden's preference for comity intersects with foundational issues like gender and race, Democrats may have far less patience for his views.
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Franco-German comity should help EU governments find common ground on defence co-operation, the focus of their efforts over the next few months.
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A degree of comity prevailed, which Mr Gingrich took as weakness—a sign that his fellow Republicans were content to remain in permanent minority.
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"This president is going to call for an end to the politics of resistance, retribution and call for more comity," she told the Post.
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This visit was marked by warmth and comity, in contrast to the friction that at times characterized his first two visits with European counterparts.
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Yet despite these gloomy indicators, there are plenty of reasons to believe that comity is not dead and trust in government can be restored.
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" But of course there is no comity between the press and a president who has called the media "the enemy of the American people.
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Fuad Hussein, a senior official from the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq, was also present, in a gesture of comity to the Kurds.
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What is usually overlooked is that this hopefulness for achieving a higher plane of global comity comes in two flavors -- one liberal, one conservative.
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That's where the U.S. needs a root and branch review of tariff and non-tariff trade barriers, trade practices, comity and basic rules of reciprocity.
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The decision puts new energy into the important doctrine of international comity, and reflects a sound balance of antitrust principles and those of international relations.
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And his ability to work closely and well with other departments will perhaps provide some comity to an executive branch that often has been chaotic.
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Traditional Washington comity largely obscured this weakness, since the White House would typically limit or scrap an arms deal if faced with enough congressional criticism.
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Subscriptions are what allow us to keep doing this work, bringing you recipes and culture and arguing in favor of a life of delicious comity.
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But the bipartisan comity hit a snag earlier this month, when the House Oversight Committee issued a subpoena seeking documents related to the OPM hacks.
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Word of the Day : a state or atmosphere of harmony or mutual civility and respect _________ The word comity has appeared in 59 articles on nytimes.
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On the air, in print and in personal appearances, they combined amiable banter and gentle ribbing with earnest explorations of shared beliefs and quests for comity.
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Trudeau himself visited the White House on February 13 and put forward a show of comity, despite his deep differences with Trump on most policy matters.
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The "deep state" had been relatively quiescent during the Obama era, eight years of policy comity between the elected and shadow governments separating two Republican administrations.
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Experts at political analysis firm Eurasia Group believe the EU would "squirm" over any Trump language that undermines the transatlantic comity on Ukraine or European security.
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Rather than fall for this siren song of comity, Trump has shown that he wants to focus like a laser on American national interests, without distractions.
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I asked O'Rourke if his emphasis on "everybody," on a restored social comity, didn't serve to mask some of the hard realities of a polarized country.
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As to whether he was further damaging comity by leading the session, the senator shrugged: "This bed was on fire when I laid down in it."
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In other instances, however, judges "go in slashing and burning" with no regard for comity — or with an eye to drawing attention to themselves, he said.
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The debate ended with a left-field question about whether the candidates would like to apologize or give a gift to anyone, and comity was restored.
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"A president should demonstrate the essential qualities of honesty and integrity, and elevate the national discourse with comity and mutual respect," Romney wrote at the time.
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Hard to see how either could manage the kind of tilt that would make that possible, though both are certainly capable of grand gestures of public comity.
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To rally the base, both candidates have repudiated their past comity, and turned to the same anti-immigrant sentiment that vaulted Mr Trump into the Oval Office.
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It made me think Democrats can no longer act as if older rules about norms and expectations and comity in the political arena effect when they're not.
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Perhaps it's time for some more carve-outs for European companies already doing business in Iran in an effort to preserve what's left of trans-Atlantic comity.
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Voters, though, have not exactly been crying out for comity: Mr. Flake opted out of running for re-election last fall after watching his approval ratings crater.
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A few days later, in an interview with the Another Round podcast, she seemed to be looking for cover, insisting she preferred comity and collaboration to tension.
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But plenty of them would rather cling to fantasies about a return to comity and bipartisanship than "make the Senate into the House," as the phrase goes.
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Neither congressman sits at his party's extreme, so their comity was not as surprising as it might have been on a Ted Cruz-Bernie Sanders road trip.
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The fiscal deal cut this week between President Trump and Democratic leaders has Capitol Hill centrists hoping that an era of bipartisan comity may descend on Washington.
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For more, read Ezra Klein's classic takedown from 2006: This was the world of The West Wing, a realm of comity, decency, respectable opponents, and honorable intellectual warfare.
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Zuckerberg ends with a quote from Abraham Lincoln — a leader who governed in a time of division that makes this era seem a model of comity and calm.
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In a statement Wednesday, the California Democrat said he looked forward to working with the new members "to restore regular order and comity" on the powerful select committee.
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They saw a lawmaker who not only felt justified protecting comity in the upper chamber, but also didn't believe there was any downside to taking away Warren's microphone.
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Hall said principles of international comity, and the "stark differences" between the U.S. and Chinese legal and economic regulatory schemes, meant the judge should not have asserted jurisdiction.
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And the fundraising grind has helped drive politics to the margins by contributing to the breakdown of comity between legislators that is so crucial to getting anything done.
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A warm letter Bush wrote his successor, Bill Clinton, was held up as an artifact of bipartisan comity, as BuzzFeed's Anne Helen Petersen noted in an insightful post.
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In addition to publishing a semi-weekly "Civility Message," he co-founded a bipartisan caucus known as the Working Group for a Working Congress to pursue bipartisan comity.
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"Areas of comity are generally found on that if you look back at the history of the program," Bernhardt said of his plans to get senators on board.
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Instead of keeping his word and continuing a longstanding Senate practice based on comity and respect, Grassley broke his word of honor to Senator [Patrick] Leahy [D-Vt.
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Schiff has said he wants a primary focus as chairman to be restoring comity and credibility on the Intelligence Committee after the Russia probe bitterly divided the panel.
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The Hollings reference was much safer territory than Biden's earlier remarks, but underlined his earlier intended point about the need for comity in Washington to get things done.
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Though the two progressives had agreed not to attack one another, that comity broke down after reports that Sanders's campaign was instructing volunteers to question whether Warren was electable.
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Trump probably didn't even realize that, although ObamaCare passed without a Republican vote, it did include scores of GOP amendments, allowed to them in an attempt at bipartisan comity.
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It was a signal the leaders assembled here on a forested outcropping in Quebec are intent on at least maintaining the appearance of comity, even as tensions boil over.
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Ringing in at just over one hour and 22 minutes, the president's speech provoked some rare moments of comity and celebration among Republicans and Democrats in the House chamber.
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Trump has skipped the dinner three years in a row, breaking with past presidents who attended the annual soirée and fundraiser in a show of comity with news outlets.
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Mr. Snyder dodged questions about whether Republicans were being overzealous in their rush to cripple incoming Democrats, but suggested that lack of comity was not confined to his party.
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" This was just a first step, Arendt wrote: "The comity of European peoples went to pieces when, and because, it allowed its weakest member to be excluded and persecuted.
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Unlike last year, when aides fretted over Mr. Trump's belligerence and bombast, it is his tendency toward comity with the North Korean leader that now worries White House advisers.
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But for years, lawmakers have spoken of this athletic tradition in near-reverent terms, recalling friendships deepened and legislative partnerships forged in a Capitol often bereft of bygone comity.
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Back then, the Times also reported that despite intense constitutional disagreements and some sharp-elbowed jousting, the Judiciary Committee Democrats and Republicans met each other with comity and understanding.
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The president's call for compromise and comity struck many as particularly hollow after two years of angry tweets, recriminations and personal attacks that continued almost up until the speech.
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The trend is being driven by a confluence of relative comity between the two sides of City Hall and institutional changes that have allowed city legislators more autonomy than ever.
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All of that had real advantages: Congress was, for much of the past century, a place of remarkable comity, where politicians routinely struck compromises on public spending or judicial appointments.
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Yet on matters beyond the virus, the two men careened from making gestures toward party cohesion and personal comity to clashing over their divergent policy agendas and records in office.
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At a meeting devised for cooperation and comity, public smiles and descriptions of "cordial" conversations were undercut by what officials said was a struggle to agree on a common direction.
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He recalls a time of civility and political comity when he entered government as a congressional staffer in the mid-1970s, and he deeply regrets the erosion of those standards.
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What I do know is that it is something we all need to think about much more carefully if we are to recover some degree of comity in our society.
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His inclusive message -- he said that theological differences were less important than Christian comity -- angered some fundamentalists, who fulminated when he shared the stage with Catholic or liberal Protestant ministers.
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It makes a mockery of the Chamber's precedents, and it reduces what little comity remains among senators, which is a huge loss since the body requires consensus to operate effectively.
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They're thinking small, focused on their own rabid fan bases, their invitations to inveigh on the news shows and their Twitter followings, which won't be fattened by calm and comity.
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Those in favor of cutting would see a step in the right direction; those opposed would see it as a bid for time without having to upset comity within the FOMC.
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He said comity, or the need to let other countries enforce their own laws, and the presumption that U.S. bankruptcy law did not reach foreign activity should not block the lawsuits.
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From The New York Times: On Tuesday, Senator Jeff Flake made an impassioned speech on the Senate Floor about the state of political comity and the deficiencies of the Republican president.
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The House committee's announcement will surely shift the spotlight across Capitol Hill to the Senate Intelligence Committee, where senators have been able to proceed largely in private and with comparative comity.
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Publicly and in private, Mr. Burr and Mr. Warner have taken pains to preserve bipartisan comity, and their success has set the committee apart from the other panels investigating Russia's efforts.
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Rather, he clings tightly to the idea that the Trump presidency is a historical aberration and persists in claiming that Republicans are reasonable people with whom compromise and comity are possible.
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"As far as Jewish people, so many friends — a daughter who happens to be here right now, a son-in-law and three beautiful grandchildren," he said, vowing to promote comity.
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I wished that Hermia's apparent betrayal by her friend would be more than an occasion for a take-off-your-earrings catfight; it should also reflect a sad breach of comity.
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When a new army chief enters the scene with relatively moderate views about India and a desire for civil-military comity, these sentiments won't necessarily lead to major attitudinal or policy shifts.
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For a man who has reached the pinnacle by indulging his impulses, the next breach of the comity and common purpose he called for Tuesday night may only be a tweet away.
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The nuclear option had been thwarted countless times in the past thanks to a bipartisan group of institutionalist Senators who viewed comity and tradition as more important than any one confirmation fight.
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Mourners lined up at the Capitol in the afternoon, many speaking with nostalgia for the comity of the Bush era, in sharp contrast to today's bitter divisions in the age of Trump.
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In a rational world — you know, one that values comity and progress in the national interest — this line of argument would be seen as incendiary at worst and hopelessly wacky at best.
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Yes, every day that he occupies the presidency he is a threat to this country, its ideas, conventions and comity, but also arguably to the safety and security of the world itself.
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Sanders and Warren are said to be personally fond of each other, and their common ground on policy could help them transcend their rivalry for now, even if the comity doesn't last.
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" He railed about the lack of transparency from Democrats and the damage they'd done "to the spirit of comity and respect that the public has every right to expect from their leaders.
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But in an 083-page decision, Bernstein dismissed a majority of Picard's claims against the "subsequent foreign transferees" because of international comity, the need to let other countries enforce their own laws.
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Mr. Sanders has made efforts toward comity in the past: He met several times last year with more moderate Democrats in Washington, pitching himself as a nominee they could at least tolerate.
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They're always there, calling to you, promising both to grant purpose and significance to your capitalist life, and—as we realize every now and again—to endanger the comity of the republic.
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One night a year, during the State of the Union address, President Trump sets aside his affinity for combat to offer up 90 minutes of stand-up comity to a national audience.
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Washington (CNN)A rare moment of comity interrupted a week of partisan rancor Thursday as the Senate stopped to acknowledge Orrin Hatch, who has just become the longest-serving Republican senator in history.
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Today these acts, offering up a striking example of community, compassion, and comity, remind us of the resourcefulness and resounding human goodness that inevitably rise up in the face of darkness and calamity.
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Under the leadership of its Republican chairman, Richard Lugar of Indiana, and its ranking member, Joe Biden of Delaware, a Democrat, the committee was an oasis of comity in an increasingly rabid Washington.
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But there are also political attitudes, and ways of expressing them, that stand in stark contrast to a capital that has long offered itself to the world as a beacon of racial comity.
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The relative comity was all the more surprising because Trump kicked the week off with an immigration measure that outraged Democrats and seems destined to be a major political flashpoint in the near future.
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The change to a simple majority vote may not sound very dramatic, but in a place like the Senate, which operates on tradition and bipartisan comity, it's a big deal befitting its apocalyptic name.
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The new law would create a system for providers to challenge all warrants based on international comity concerns, but would clarify that the U.S. could seek warrants that would be valid pending any review.
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These policies would help us reverse the obesity epidemic, improve the health and financial well-being of millions, decrease inequality, halt the decline in life expectancy — and even promote a modicum of political comity.
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The dinner, intended to commemorate comity between the president and his press corps, has come under immense pressure in the age of "fake news," and President Trump has declined to attend two years running.
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Opponents of partisan gerrymanders say, however, that time is fast running out in a nation that seems almost daily to grow more bitterly divided and less willing to follow the rules of political comity.
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If we were going to rehash that luxury-box problem, the question might have tried to tease out its moral complexities, like what is the point at which principle is more important than comity?
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The event had few of the trappings of Mr. Biden's events, like the Pledge of Allegiance and a call for blessings upon the American military and the restoration of consensus and comity in Washington.
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"This President is going to call for an end to the politics of resistance, retribution and call for more comity -- c-o-m-i-t-y," counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway said Monday.
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Schumer added that Senate comity was further damaged when McConnell's refused to consider Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court and when he allowed the "blue slip" tradition, which fosters bipartisan judicial picks, to wane.
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But his tenure has also been deeply polarizing and disruptive to the national discourse, threatening democratic norms and rule of law, comity with Israel's Arab citizens, and lowering standards of good governance and civility.
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But given how the Republican Party and especially Donald Trump have contributed to "the erosion of public confidence in our governing institutions," Mr. Cantor's remonstrations in favor of a more bipartisan comity ring hollow.
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Andrew Cuomo and Mr. de Blasio, in a rare fit of comity, rolled out the red carpet for Amazon, for what would have been one of the biggest economic deals ever in the state.
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Still, Donald Trump's decision in December to formally recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital—and move the US embassy to that city—represented a new level of comity with the most extreme elements of modern Zionism.
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For McCain, the decision is clearly one with his legacy in mind: He wants to do everything he can to restore comity and normalcy to the chamber he has called his work home since 1987.
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Entering Thursday evening, Mr. Biden had subsisted as a peculiar kind of favorite: 76 and rusty, his speeches heavier on curious digression than stirring crescendo, unapologetic about his affection for a bygone era of comity.
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Sounding reserved (and a bit hoarse), sticking (mostly) to his prepared text and punctuating his own speech with loud, staccato slaps of applause, Mr. Trump attempted the music, if not necessarily the lyrics, of comity.
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By refusing even to meet with President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, and by blocking hearings on his nomination, McConnell deeply harmed the comity on which the Senate is supposed to run.
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The inability of liberals to think around the tea party led to the coffee party (get it?), organized by liberals who wanted not to defeat conservatives but to have conversations that moved them toward comity.
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Finally, he could have made a call for a new commitment to comity in our country by shouldering some of the blame for the current climate and calling on the Democrats to do the same.
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Devin Nunes, has destroyed that body's ability to come to any credible consensus, and the relative comity of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has not yet produced the detailed analysis and recommendations our country needs.
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" Ahead of the vote, Barr and Ross urged Pelosi to postpone the contempt vote, saying the move "is both unnecessarily undermining inter-branch comity and degrading the constitutional separation of powers and its own institutional integrity.
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Upon appeal, the Second Circuit held that the district court judge was "bound to defer" to the foreign government's interpretation of its laws under international comity principles, which means the defendants walk away without a penalty.
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The whole of a comprehensive commitment to revitalizing economic opportunity, charting a consensual path to cultural comity and preventing terrorism in ways consistent with an open society is greater than the sum of its policy parts.
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It seemed that way during a moment, at least, of comity on Tuesday, when reporters and Ms. Sanders trudged into the James S. Brady Briefing Room for her first "daily" White House press briefing since October.
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"What you want to do is destroy this guy's life, hold this seat open and hope you win in 2020," Mr. Graham, red-faced and dropping all pretenses of legislative comity, yelled at his Democratic colleagues.
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After weeks of acrimony and divisiveness, I look forward to the Senate showing its traditional comity and bipartisanship in confirming the nomination of David Friedman, a man of principle and conviction, as U.S. ambassador to Israel.
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Along the way, "Lionheart" offers sidelong observations about the importance of preserving a family legacy; the need for comity among Nigeria's classes and ethnic groups; and the wisdom of older generations, even when change is necessary.
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But in the 3-0 appeals court decision, Circuit Judge Dennis Jacobs said principles of international comity justified accepting the validity of the assignment, which he said "would undermine no policy or interest" of the United States.
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If anyone wonders what's happened to comity and decorum in the nation's capital, they need look no further than this attempted Pelosi Snub-down — call it what you will — and the Democrats' boycott of Trump's inauguration ceremony.
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At a minimum, defeating the existential menace of the Trump movement means waking up, once and for all, from the many fatally compromised half-measures—and worse—that make up Joe Biden's fond imaginings of bipartisan comity.
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The spirit of comity fostered by the shared mourning of Mr. Bush will almost certainly dissipate within days, if not hours, of his funeral at Washington National Cathedral on Wednesday and his interment in Texas on Thursday.
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The United States formally accused the Chinese of violating a 2015 agreement — brokered by President Barack Obama and President Xi Jinping — to cease economic espionage, saying Chinese hackers have come roaring back after two years of comity.
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But there are also political attitudes in rural Georgia, and ways of expressing them, that stand in stark contrast to a capital city that has long offered itself to the world as a beacon of racial comity.
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They were joined by Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, Michelle Obama and Melania Trump in that stirring photograph, which went viral only partly because their easy smiles suggested a comity and dignity still possible in this hyperpartisan era.
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In my memory, the symbol of that vanished comity was the hickory tree in the yard of my grandfather Robert Cyle Walker, a Republican justice of the peace whose farm is now a well-groomed city park.
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And though her closeness to the CBC is an eye-popping example of a tradition of bipartisan comity in Congress unusual in the Trump era, it was not a foregone conclusion given her past statements about the caucus.
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As a matter of sound monetary management, and a modicum of Beltway comity, the Fed is right to wait for the new administration to show its hand with respect to fiscal and structural policies it intends to implement.
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Mr. Trump had one brief moment of comity with Ms. Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, when they agreed to a short-term spending deal, but it quickly evaporated amid disagreement over immigration.
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Because American political memory uses the 20th century as a baseline, there's a dominant assumption that the current, high state of polarization is the aberration, and the relative comity of mid-century American politics the state of nature.
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Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, excoriated the civil rights record of Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama and Mr. Trump's pick for attorney general, breaking with a long-held Senate custom of comity in the chamber.
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Since the beginning of the primary campaign, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren have proceeded with a patina of comity, focusing on their mostly shared policy goals and reminding anyone who would listen about their ostensibly genuine mutual admiration.
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While the nation waits breathlessly for the dawn of the Trump era, however, it is impossible to read this practical volume without wondering about its implications for the functioning of our federal institutions and the comity among nations.
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Never a friend nor an open foe, Ms. Merkel has always sought to nudge Mr. Putin and Russia toward a relationship rooted in rules rather than emotion, a comity built on clearly defined common interests, not personal chemistry.
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Political Memo Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s presidential campaign was forced into a defensive posture this week after he invoked his work with Southern segregationist senators to make a point about bygone comity in Congress.
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Not long ago tech gurus predicted that technology would dissolve some of our biggest political problems—replacing a world of shortages with a world of abundance and a world of tribal loyalties with a world of internet-enabled comity.
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It was indeed a year of comity: Adam Feldman, a Supreme Court statistician, notes that the 2016-17 term was one of only two in the past 50 years in which there were more unanimous rulings than divided ones.
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It is overdue for a congressional revision that would continue to protect privacy but would more effectively balance concerns of international comity with law enforcement needs and service provider obligations in the global context in which this case arose.
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What matters is that you, all of you, on both sides of the political aisle, have let Putin destroy any vestige of comity left in this town and you have no idea that that was his plan all along.
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Appeasing the Russian bear by giving it sanctions relief and ignoring its previous indiscretions will not bring Putin back into the comity of nations but, instead, will reinforce his view that hostility to the West is the right path.
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In years past, comity would have allowed McCain to pair his yes vote with a Democratic no vote, and the upper chamber could have moved the ObamaCare replacement bill and then moved on to the rest of the agenda.
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Christians, most especially Evangelicals who often champion cultural values and practices common to ancient biblical times, seem so frequently to be the ones who ignore what we owe one another when it comes to creating public policy and comity.
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Many have decried the decline of comity in Congress in recent years and might see Murkowski's gesture as a tip to the old-fashioned days where politicians showed more humanity toward one another than we're used to seeing today.
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When that might happen is unclear, and Democrats know that the current moment of even tentative comity on the Republican-controlled panel may offer their best chance for scrutinizing links between people close to President Trump and Russian officials.
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Mr. Trump's snub will signify the first time since the 1970s that a president has skipped the event, a celebrity-laden fixture of the Washington social calendar that is usually meant to symbolize comity between politicians and the press.
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It was a rare display of comity for a Congress that's been entrenched for weeks in a partisan battle over impeaching Trump — a process to which Cummings, who served as the chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, was central.
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In a letter to U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in Manhattan, lawyers for Mehmet Hakan Atilla, a former deputy general manager at Turkey's state-controlled Halkbank, said "notions of comity" weighed against a stiff punishment at his May 7 sentencing.
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"To move for a sale in Malaysia immediately would be a remarkable violation of due process and international legal comity, and would call into question the actual ownership of the yacht for a potential buyer," the company said in the statement.
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There are good reasons, other than respect for norms and comity, why Democrats didn't do this in 2009, but if Republicans succeed at undoing most of that work in a matter of weeks, the arguments for moving incrementally will largely disappear.
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What they see as needing to be saved is the moderating, stabilizing effect of institutions such as the Supreme Court, political norms such as basic bipartisan comity, and the practices of responsible, fact-based media like the New York Times.
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Year marked by 'loss of comity' The farewell speeches came as the most recent session of Congress drew to a close in late December -- a session that has been punctuated by a series of bitterly contentious fights on Capitol Hill.
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Despite our work in the partisan, divisive world of American politics, during the week, comradery between colleagues was demonstrated while we learned about an island that had once shown the fatal ramifications of the decline of civility and comity in politics.
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Today, as Mr. Kasich makes comity a centerpiece of his long-shot bid for the Republican nomination, they describe his candidacy as an exercise in remarkable self-restraint that has managed to keep his crankier instincts mostly out of sight.
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Then, the leaders might realize they need to engage one another and demonstrate how they'd handle a general-election face-off with a president who is not known for Ellen-esque comity or for politely waiting his turn to speak onstage.
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That's because at the district level, there is some level of comity between the White House and senators of both parties via the so-called "blue slip," where senators from each state have a formal say in who fills vacancies.
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While four years of relative comity have followed between the Council and Mr. de Blasio, Ms. Mark-Viverito, who leaves office at the end of the month, converted many of her doubters by standing up to the mayor when it counted.
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There was sexism, yes, especially in the disparity between how men and women were paid and promoted, but Wilkes enjoyed the relative comity that existed among the men and women at Lincoln Labs, the sense of being among intellectual peers.
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"That breakdown of comity in the United States Senate, that abdication of the basic responsibility of members of the Unites States Senate, by subjecting it to such intense partisanship and actually allowing partisanship, to supersede the constitutional obligation, it's discouraging," Earnest told reporters.
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"This morning, Peter is back as the lead author of a front-pager, "President Tries Taste of Comity As G.O.P. Stews," reporting that Trump called Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi to crow about the morning cable coverage: "The press has been incredible.
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It was a speech that harkened back to a forgotten and perhaps mythical age of compromise and comity in the Senate, reminding the nation of the bedrock importance of its founding political principles at a moment of extreme national political stress and recrimination.
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"At a time when our politics are so polarized, at a time when norms and customs of political rhetoric and courtesy and comity are so often treated like they're disposable -- this is precisely the time when we should play it straight," he said.
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The normal comity between past holders of the job and the current occupant has been disrupted by Trump's frequent criticism of Obama, his continued attacks on the Clintons and his general disregard for the usual displays of decorum offered in the job.
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Mr. Danforth invoked the comity (and bonhomie) of this era by recalling that, immediately after Mr. Bush was inaugurated, he offered an impromptu nod toward his old colleague Dan Rostenkowski, the legendary former chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means.
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"I think Leader McConnell all too often has abandoned what is good for the comity in the Senate and the institution of the Senate to go along with President Trump," Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader, said in an interview on Tuesday.
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To committee members of both parties, the planned division of one room into two is emblematic of how far the panel, a longtime oasis of country-first comity in a bitterly divided Congress, has fallen since it began its Russia inquiry last year.
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WASHINGTON — After refusing to attend next weekend's annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner — a traditional night of comity between presidents and the news media — President Trump announced Saturday that he would hold a rally away from the capital while the dinner was underway.
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Mr. Biden, speaking at a fund-raiser at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City on Tuesday night, stressed the need to "be able to reach consensus under our system," and cast his decades in the Senate as a time of relative comity.
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To do that, the mayor -- whose rise was centered on the need for comity within the Democratic Party and an intense focus on how to beat President Donald Trump, especially in his native Midwest -- is beginning to take on his Democratic rivals with pointed critiques.
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U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman said Sotheby's failed to establish that the case did not belong in his court because Rybolovlev was already litigating in Switzerland, where much of the key evidence and many witnesses were located, and that principles of international comity justified dismissal.
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But the Biden case of comity and cooperation could be harder to make after Republican senators marched in lockstep with Trump over impeachment, not just in terms of their likely vote at the end of the process but in their refusal to countenance calling witnesses.
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From The New Deal, The New Frontier, and The Great Society—the products of a Democratic Party that once had ideas and pragmatism — we now have The Socialist Stumble, an eight-year (and counting) failed collectivist experiment that utterly rejects any comity of politics.
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The normal comity between past holders of the job and the current occupant has been disrupted by Trump's frequent criticism of Obama, his continued attacks on the Clintons, and his general disregard for the usual displays of decorum offered by holders of the job.
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Frontman Patrick Stickles anticipated the "new normal" that emerged once the shock of the inauguration wore off, seeing through Obama's impossible promises of comity and predicting an endless future of the right encroaching on common decency, whether it's intransigent Republicans or just Barstool bros.
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His insight was that the way you beat Obama is by grinding things to a halt, which would hurt the Democrats more because they were the party in the White House and the party of government, and because it would undermine Obama's whole comity shtick.
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Unfortunately, in the two months since his victory, Trump's words and his promises of post-electoral comity have given way to a parade of extremist comments and actions the likes of which we have not seen a newly elected president convey in modern history.
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But that was about the extent of the comity; just days after members of the Senate had gathered together in a bipartisan show of civility at the funeral of Senator John McCain, the crowded hearing room in the Hart Senate Office Building seethed with antipathy.
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But many on the left worry that, despite the comity that characterized much of their interactions with each other in 2019, the zero-sum nature of the primary would eventually force each camp to try to undermine the other's support at the ballot box.
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Capping a week of extraordinary hostility toward the news media, President Trump tweeted on Saturday that he would not attend this year's charity dinner of the White House Correspondents' Association, scheduled for April 29, a Washington tradition symbolizing comity between the president and the press.
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He's not much interested in major legislation, and it's a myth that he's a Senate institutionalist in the same vein as his predecessors Mike Mansfield, Howard Baker, George Mitchell and Bob Dole, partisans who appreciated comity in the Senate and respect for fair protocol.
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Interpreting Thanksgiving Philip Deloria, in deconstructing the myth that comity existed between Pilgrims and Native Americans, would have done well to acknowledge the existential threat that the English settlers confronted during their first years in the North American wilderness (A Critic at Large, November 25th).
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But when it was his turn, Judge Gorsuch reached often for comity during a well-practiced 16-minute speech, insisting that he favored no party above the law and appearing to brace for attacks from critics who have said his rulings tilt toward corporate interests.
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What followed was a roast that took unflinching aim at some of the notables in the room — and quickly opened a divide, largely but not entirely along partisan lines, over the limits of comedy and comity under a president who rarely hesitates to attack the press.
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And it has introduced a measure of strain for those in the middle, who are seeking to negotiate the seething anger of liberal voters and an instinct for comity among lawmakers who have spent years lamenting what they have viewed as Republican bulldozing of Senate norms.
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Senators on the Judiciary Committee and in the full Senate will face what their colleague Cory Booker described as his choice in testifying against Sessions: whether to elevate "conscience and country," over the tradition of protocol and comity that urges senators to support their own members for cabinet positions.
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And yet the Democrats seem to be letting these usurpers of comity get away with it — as they did during the tumultuous 220006 election season, when they gaped at Trump's outlandish performance while the ratings-hungry media relished it, whipping up a tsunami of ballyhoo that swamped his detractors.
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The theory of the Biden presidency, which the candidate has fulsomely advanced, is that once he's installed in the Oval Office, the fog will lift, the minds of Republicans will clear, and together, everyone will walk hand in hand into a new era of bipartisan comity and substantive debate.
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Moreover even if you could, few liberals would trade the kind of big Supreme Court losses on social issues (and not only on social issues, of course) that I'm imagining for more comity in the nomination process and a slightly lower risk of a demagogue capturing the White House.
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At his death he was most remembered for his defiant stand against the United States-led war in Iraq, his ability to preside over a state in which power was divided between the left and the right — comity that is hardly imaginable today — and his championing the European Union.
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The election of Mr. Macron now offers the bloc, but Ms. Merkel in particular, a chance to hit reset and for its core partners to press ahead with overhauls to save the decades-old project of economic and political comity that has preserved peace and prosperity on the Continent.
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A divisive showdown over a Supreme Court nominee was certainly not helpful in advancing comity, but it has not taken on the widespread acrimony that has consumed both houses of Congress in past fights, such as over government shutdown threats or the perpetual battles over the health care law.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Emmanuel Macron of France — representing countries that for ages waged ruinous wars against each other — met in a German city to renew the Élysée Treaty of 1963 that established comity between the two countries as the bedrock for a united Europe.
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Nunes has previously argued that the committee's reputation for comity is overblown — there was plenty of infighting in the run-up to the Iraq War, he said — and that its smoother relationships in earlier years were the result of too many lawmakers with ties to the intelligence community.
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The judge in the recent Microsoft appeals case wrote that the Act is "overdue for a congressional revision that would continue to protect privacy but would more effectively balance concerns of international comity with law enforcement needs and service provider obligations in the global context in which this case arose".
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In this view, Biden's own personal history and career—the relationships he built with segregationists in the Senate, his work on now-reviled bipartisan legislation like the 1994 crime bill—have inspired within him a deep and abiding faith in the possibility of political comity and co-governance with the right.
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The destruction of comity and credibility plaguing the House Intelligence Committee, while democracy is under attack by espionage directed from Moscow, is being executed by a chairman who is potentially colluding with Trump associates under investigation for possible crimes, a subject that should be formally investigated if evidence so warrants.
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And if you can find committee hearings, transparency, full participation, comity, respect or anything akin to good faith in the way he just tried to ram his health care bill through the chamber, then I want you on the hunt for the yeti and, pretty please, the Fountain of Youth.
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MORE (R-Ariz.) warned about the spread of a "half-baked, spurious nationalism" that reminds him of the years that preceded the Second War War, and the destruction and dysfunction of a Senate that conducts itself without the mutual respect and comity the founders envisioned for the great deliberative body. Sen.
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Trump could talk about comity and unity this time, but if you were watching his speech, you were also watching television — a dramatically ripe encounter between two people who had just faced off over a historic, harmfully long government shutdown, and over whether this speech could happen in the first place.
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" In that latter article, Port writes how protests are a front for eco-agitators: "We cannot let the politics of extreme activists, or the narcissistic antics of celebrities, harm what should be our most important goal, which is comity between tribal and non-tribal communities and a unified, neighborly spirit as North Dakotans.
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"Submitting a false and misleading document to a foreign sovereign and its courts for an extradition decision is not only unethical but also flouts the comity of trust necessary for that process where judicial systems rely only on documents to make that decision," Firtash's American legal team wrote in a statement to me.
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True to form, Biden has responded to Trump's attacks on Hunter Biden not with indictments of the Republican Party's complicity, but with rejoinders mostly aimed at Trump himself—presumably to avoid alienating his expected partners in governance and the voters who hope to see the dream of bipartisan comity revived and realized.
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The news offered a rare sign of comity at a time when Iran has been in an escalating cycle of confrontation with its Persian Gulf neighbors and with the United States, including the shooting down of drones, the seizure of tankers and, most recently, an attack on major oil installations in Saudi Arabia.
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In previous debates, Clinton spoke in a honeyed monotone, calmly defending her positions and professing comity with her opponents, but, hoarse from a week of tough campaigning, she spent the better part of Sunday night near-shouting, attacking Sanders just as she did Barack Obama during the bad old days of early 2008.
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This week — in part a function of their 4–4 split but also likely in recognition of the need for the court to project stability and even-handedness in the face of a contentious nomination battle — the message they have chosen to put forward is one of comity even in disagreement and, perhaps, compromise.
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With the unpredictability that Trump has brought to government and Washington — which followed the year of instability that the court itself faced following Scalia's death — Roberts has sought out a path of compromise and comity that is in fitting with the institutionalist conservatism that has marked his approach to his role on the court.
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When asked about President Donald Trump, he spoke with emotion about how he hoped everyone could agree a "pathological liar" should not be president; in his closing statement, he practically begged for more comity in the country, without backing off his insistence that the rich need to do more to provide for working families.
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By refusing to confirm any nominee of President Obama to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scalia, Republicans would disrupt two judicial years of Supreme Court practice and the rule of law in America and make a mockery of McConnell's promise to bring comity, civility and regular order to the Senate once Republicans were given control.
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But those overtures point up a disquieting fear about his bid to defeat Trump: He may well perpetuate the fallacies of elite comity that marked his early career—and that continue to animate Democratic strategies to win back voters who are not as yet scandalized by the racist and misogynist rabble-rousing that is Trumpism.
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The disjoint between the Trump Show and the outbreak of comity in Congress is a reminder of one of the fundamental dynamics of Trump's Washington: Most of the political system keeps on operating even when the president of the United States is completely disengaged and focused on other things, as he was this week.
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In a series of what appear to be disciplinary actions, including summary dismissal of "disloyal" members and shows of force in West Bank refugee camps portrayed as lairs of "criminals," the current leadership is sending a clear signal to the cadre of its vision for Fatah's big day: a display of obedience, rather than internal comity.
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"At a time when our politics are so polarized, at a time when norms and customs of political rhetoric and courtesy and comity are so often treated like they're disposable, this is precisely the time when we should play it straight," Mr. Obama told an audience that included Judge Garland's family, Democratic senators and liberal activists.
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Emanuel's entire political career, which he brought to an abrupt end amidst allegations that his administration had worked to cover up a policeman's murder of an unarmed black teen named Laquan McDonald—name-checked by Castro on the debate stage—has been proof positive that intra-party comity is a norm that serves only the party's leadership.
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"While the administration believes the designation of Fanning as acting secretary of the Army is consistent with the Vacancies Act, as a show of comity to address these concerns, Fanning has agreed to step out of his acting role to focus on achieving confirmation in the near future," Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said in a statement. Sen.
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Claire McCaskillClaire Conner McCaskillEx-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity Ocasio-Cortez blasts NYT editor for suggesting Tlaib, Omar aren't representative of Midwest Trump nominees meet fiercest opposition from Warren, Sanders, Gillibrand MORE (D-Mo.), who is running for reelection, blamed McConnell's obstructionist tactics during the Obama administration for destroying the chamber's tradition of comity.
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But with the Senate careering toward a chamber-rattling showdown over President Trump's nominee, Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, the body's long history of relative collaboration on Supreme Court matters has come to this: Next week, the last bastion of comity is expected to fall over a plainly qualified, mild-mannered nominee who had no major stumbles in his hearings.
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That's why Ms. Collins, bless her heart, spent the run-up to her recess trying and failing to broker a deal to keep Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, from blowing up the filibuster, one of the last remaining vestiges of Senate comity, when Democrats threatened to block the appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
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In a letter to Mr. Trump that underscored how the shutdown fight has poisoned hopes of bipartisan comity at the start of divided government, Ms. Pelosi cited security concerns as her reason for proposing that the president postpone the annual presidential ritual of addressing a joint session of Congress in a televised speech during prime time — or perhaps submit a written message instead.
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Former Trump campaign manager Corey LewandowskiCorey R. LewandowskiSunday shows - Recession fears dominate Lewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel MORE refused to answer some lawmaker questions during an appearance before the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, frustrating Democrats and ending a rare moment of bipartisan comity on the panel.
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For their part, Democrats, still seething from the election and eager to please their affronted base, have done all they can to stymie what little the Republicans have tried to do, dragging out cabinet nominations to the best of their procedural ability and instigating a nasty fight over Mr. Trump's choice for the Supreme Court that ended a decades-long tradition of bipartisan comity on such nominees.
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INDIANAPOLIS — In the partisan battlefield of elective office, the National Association of Secretaries of State has always been a DMZ of sorts, an alliance of obscure officials who would rather talk charity regulations than politics, a conclave so committed to comity that it alternates its chair between Democrats ("a nonpartisan organization," said Denise Miller, the outgoing president) and Republicans ("we stand together," said Connie Lawson, the incoming one).
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Trump lashed out at investigations The White House had previewed Trump's speech as an attempt to reach across the aisle and encourage "comity" — a term that senior counselor Kellyanne ConwayKellyanne Elizabeth ConwayIllinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Trump health chief: Officials actively 'working on' ObamaCare replacement plan Campaign aide: Trump asking questions shared by 'millions of Americans' with Epstein conspiracy theory MORE literally spelled out to reporters on Monday.
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Sen. Orrin HatchOrrin Grant HatchTrump to award racing legend Roger Penske with Presidential Medal of Freedom Trump awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to economist, former Reagan adviser Arthur Laffer Second ex-Senate staffer charged in aiding doxxing of GOP senators MORE (R-Utah) said on Wednesday that the Senate is "in crisis" and urged his colleagues to return to "comity" as he formally said goodbye to the chamber he has served in for more than 40 years.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE on Monday reportedly tore into a host of Democrats during a private lunch with television anchors, hours before he was set to deliver a speech the White House insisted would focus on the need for comity and bipartisan consensus.
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