partisanshipness

[Victor Steinbok]

partisanshipnessmentum

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On 2/19/2012 5:14 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> 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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>>> 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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