Indeed, health policy analysts say they worry that the very real problems in health care will again get subsumed into a bitterly partisan struggle.

"Overall, I didn't think it was as bitterly partisan today as most people thought it would be."

Next, plug in a bitterly partisan midterm election year, which seems to have scared the daylights out of the Obama administration.

In the past year, he has taken everything the Supreme Court, a relentless independent counsel and bitterly partisan Congress could throw at him.

While some of the signs in the crowd were bitterly partisan, most were not.

The chairman, renowned as a bitterly partisan campaigner, saw the election as a victory for his brand of politics.

In the aftermath of a bitterly partisan presidential scandal, it is perhaps not surprising that Washington has not yet reached any consensus.

His actions today were just the latest salvo in what has been a bitterly partisan political fight over jobs.

But this close bitterly partisan race, held during a controversial war, offers voters numerous reasons to vote.

The foreign policy stakes in 1919-20 and 1947-49 were high, yet not even the bitterly partisan Lodge made such threats (veiled or otherwise).