partisanshipness

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/19/2012 04:32 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>I'm waiting for partisanshipnessitis...
>DanG

Or, when Colbert returns to the air, partisanshipiness.

But what would be the word for "the state of partisanship
unfortunately rampant in Congress today"?

Joel

>On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Jonathan Lighter
><wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Poster:       Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> > Subject:      partisanshipness
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> > CNN: Starbuck's CEO Howard Schultz decries Washington's "ideology and
> > partisanshipness."
> >
> > Absurd, trivial lapse? Or milestone on the march to Inglish?
> >
> > Can we know?
> >
> > JL

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