The Congress in the first decade of the 21st century has been characterized by sometimes rather extreme partisanship, with many votes split precisely on party lines.

They understand that extreme partisanship has led to gridlock and an inability to solve our problems.

While the differences between parties is often minimal, Island politics is characterized by extreme partisanship, and a high degree of personal identification with a political party.

Adviser to President Obama, Rahm Emanuel, said the period from 2008-2010 was marked by extreme partisanship.

Mr. Lieberman, having made the case that extreme partisanship is hurting the country, would feel some sense of vindication.

He exchanged the lofty ecumenism of the liberation for an extreme partisanship.

Surely they did not do this to advance the politics of petty bickering and extreme partisanship they plainly deplore.

That he has gone at it with such extreme partisanship has cost him, and the State Department, credibility as well.

The Italian Parliament also provides excellent extreme partisanship of the kind newspapers like to describe as "stormy debate."

Our country cannot afford another year of extreme partisanship and legislative gridlock.