Overheated rhetoric overshadows bipartisan compromises (examples)

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Overheated rhetoric overshadows bipartisan compromises

Fri Jun 24, 6:23 PM ET

Examples of recent extreme political rhetoric and bipartisan compromises:

THE TALK:
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Howard Dean: "The Republicans are not very friendly to different kinds of people. They're a pretty monolithic party. They all behave the same, and they all look the same. It's pretty much a white, Christian party."

-Sen. Richard Durbin (news, bio, voting record): "If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an
FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime - Pol Pot or others - that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners."

-Karl Rove:........