1.   But images of the period are shrouded in myth and clouded by partisan rhetoric.

2.   Beneath all the partisan rhetoric, is a sense that the committee is paralyzed by partisanship.

3.   But as the final budget battle nears, Clinton has fired up his partisan rhetoric.

4.   But biotech mutual fund manager Lissa Morgenthaler of Half Moon Bay chided the debaters for being long on partisan rhetoric and short on policy specifics.

5.   But it is House Speaker Newt Gingrich, after consulting a pollster about which words were most harmful, who escalated partisan rhetoric to a conspicuously intolerable level.

6.   Clinton generally refrained from hitting the GOP with harsh partisan rhetoric.

7.   Despite the partisan rhetoric there have been divisions within both parties on the size and shape of a tax cut.

8.   Lott, after persuading his members to accept the deal, abandoned his often partisan rhetoric and pleaded hopefully for bipartisanship.

9.   Of those seven, three contain tricky issues that have kept the partisan rhetoric at a sustained pitch.

10.   Partisan rhetoric aside, the facts are clear.