"bipartisan" it says here in the New York Times

[underpants]

Blackwater Mounts a Defense With Top Washington Talent
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/washington/01blackwater-sub.html?pagewanted=1&hp

It has hired a bipartisan stable of big-name Washington lawyers, lobbyists and press advisers, including the public relations powerhouse Burson-Marsteller, which was brought in briefly, but at a critical moment, to help Blackwater’s chairman, Erik D. Prince, prepare for his first Congressional hearing.

Blackwater for a time retained Kenneth D. Starr, the former Whitewater independent counsel, and Fred F. Fielding, who is now the White House counsel, to help handle suits filed by the families of slain Blackwater employees.

Another outside public relations specialist, Mark Corallo, former chief spokesman for Attorney General John Ashcroft, quit working for Blackwater late last year because he said he was uncomfortable with what he termed some executives’ cowboy mentality.

One of Blackwater’s Washington lawyers is Beth Nolan, who served as White House counsel for the last two years of the Clinton administration. (Ms. Nolan is leaving private practice at the end of November to become general counsel at George Washington University.)

Another is Stephen M. Ryan, a top white-collar defense lawyer and former general counsel of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. Mixed bag

The company’s chief Washington lobbyist is Paul Behrends, who worked at the now-defunct Alexander Strategy Group, a Republican firm with close ties to the jailed lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Mr. Behrends, who now works at C & M Capitolink, a Washington lobbying firm, declined to discuss his work for Blackwater, which has paid his company $300,000 since last year.

Anne E. Tyrrell , the company’s chief spokeswoman (and the daughter of R. Emmett Tyrrell, the longtime editor of the conservative magazine American Spectator)

Fred Fielding is Bush's LAWYER for crying outloud!! He replaced Harriett Miers :eyes::wow:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Fielding

[baldguy]

1. A lot of Republicans + one Democrat = "bipartisan"

A lot of Democrats + one Republican = "highly partisan"

[underpants]

2. I am sure it is well founded

one of these yahoos told the Times reporter that it was bipartisan so obviously it must be ( no time to check it out the cocktail parties are starting!!!!)

[BridgeTheGap]

3. Just like the SCHIP vote was "partisan"

just 10 votes shy of overriding chimpy's veto.

[Freddie Stubbs]

4. A majority of Republican voted against it and a majority of Democrats supported it

That sounds partisan to me.

[BridgeTheGap]

5. Still, only 10 shy of an over ride

It'll make for great commercials next year!