|
|
Article: EDITORIAL: TAKE TENNESSEE SENATOR'S FRIENDLY ADVICE
- Article from:
- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 3, 2009
CopyrightCopyright © HT Media Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 -- The office of Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., issued the following news release:
The post-partisan era that many hoped would come about with Barack Obama's election as president and the urgent need to tackle serious domestic and foreign policy issues is still a ways off, possibly not even on the horizon.
In fact, trying to resolve some of those pressing issues has made national politics more contentious.
Into this fray stepped U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander to offer advice that "I hope will be taken as a friendly suggestion to President Obama and his White House: Don't create an enemies list."
Alexander, a Tennessee Republican who once served in a low-level position in the ...