partisanshipness

[Benjamin Barrett]

Partisanship?

On Feb 19, 2012, at 2:14 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

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> At 2/19/2012 04:32 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>> I'm waiting for partisanshipnessitis...
>> DanG
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> Or, when Colbert returns to the air, partisanshipiness.
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> But what would be the word for "the state of partisanship
> unfortunately rampant in Congress today"?
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> Joel
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>> 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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