Sentences with phrase «republicans from blaming»

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NBC chairman Bob Greenblatt said his network isn't to blame for Donald Trump's surprising political ascendancy from real estate mogul and former reality TV star to the Republican nominee for president.

Trump has also bounced from blaming Democrats for not doing enough to act on gun control, to telling a bipartisan group of lawmakers, «I like taking the guns early,» and pivoting away from Republicans on how to limit access to guns when mental illness is a factor.

She took credit — and then blame — for writing Melania Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention that included similar lines from Michelle Obama's speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

He leads off his campaign blaming Obama for the financial mess he inherited from Republicans.

If we actuall had a Congress who cared about the People they swore to serve and did not take vacations 1 week for every 2 they work (new Boehner rule when he became Speaker), actually did work and created bills that were other than ending abortion rights or killing Medicare, stopped opposing ending the fraud Bush wars that raise our debt by more than a trillion a month (and Republicans then blame Obama for the rising debt from their wars), and acted like humans we would already be well into recovery.

And if unemployment remains high two years from now we will doubtless blame the do - nothing Republican House for doing nothing to fix it.

Cuomo has come under fire from some liberal advocates for not strongly pushing for the bill, which he says he supports but blames the gulf between Republicans and Democrats in an election year.

Cuomo last week blamed the federal government and potential cuts from the Republican - led Congress for uncertainty he said at the time could result in a temporary spending plan.

The fallout from Trump's sweeping immigration order exposed tender rifts within the Republican Party, alarmed members of his Cabinet, fueled suspicions among his top advisers — and left the defiant commander in chief stewing over who was to blame.

New York State Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox called on Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to denounce the ad from an Obama - aligned Super PAC that blames Mitt Romney for the death of a man's wife.

This economy is shrinking badly, and Walker, his Republican buddies, and removing nearly a billion dollars from circulation by cutting education budgets are to blame.

When it comes to the stream of state lawmakers being charged with corruption, booted from office or facing sex scandals, Republican candidate for governor Rob Astorino says Gov. Andrew Cuomo is to be blamed for not reforming the Capitol.

During the Democratic presidential primary, Clinton came under fire from her opponent, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, for her past support of trade deals - including the North America Free Trade Agreement under her husband's administration — which have been blamed for job losses in key swing states like Ohio, (which, of course, is where the Republicans are holding their national convention this week).

In the statement from Executive Director Geoff Berman, Republicans are blamed for a lack of success on issues like early voting, bolstering abortion rights, the Dream Act and the Child Victims Act.

Sen. John DeFrancisco, a Syracuse - area Republican, said Cuomo's attempt to blame Washington for Albany's late budget is a stretch and diversion away from questions now being raised about «the functional government that he takes credit for.»

But while Cuomo and Democrats in Albany, New York City, and elsewhere cast blame on their Republican counterparts for certain legislation being eliminated from the budget proposals, it's not clear what exactly the governor and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie made the focal points of budget negotiations, and what they weren't pushing, given the opaque nature of the process.

America's worst shooting massacre prompted the same sort of reactions from local members of Congress as all other such tragedies have, with Democrats calling for additional gun - control measures and Republicans resisting and blaming the Democratic president for a perceived inability to confront and control terrorism.

Rank - and - file lawmakers and members of the conference leadership are blaming a Republican «wave» that contributed to their losses on Election Day, including the unseating of three freshman Democrats from upstate districts.

A former Staten Island congressman who served seven months in prison for tax evasion, Republican Michael Grimm, blamed his departure from office in 2014 on the «same politically corrupt team of players» that he claims is driving the Russia investigation.

Several congressional Republicans are panning the emerging outlines of Trump's first budget, complaining that he's cutting too much from already lean department accounts while leaving untouched the massive benefit programs blamed for the nation's deficits.

As their colleagues noisily traded blame over the shutdown, about two dozen centrist senators from both parties crammed for hours into the Capitol Hill office of Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins to try to chart a civil way out of the mess, using a Native American «talking stick» to take turns speaking.

Trump's reported fallback plan if this health care reform proposal fails to pass muster: let Obamacare fail on its own, blame the Democrats, and push another Republican plan two years from now.

His balancing act as governor has been very deliberate: When Cuomo takes rhetorical stances to placate progressives constantly nagging at him from the left, he almost as quickly cuts deals with the state's Republicans, who he has never truly fought to dislodge, and then blames them for not getting what he had claimed he wanted.

He listed ways in which the incumbent Republican congressman differs markedly in approach from Hinchey, saying that Chris Gibson has «accumulated a horrible environmental record: championing a new nuclear plant in the Hudson Valley and blaming global warming on sunspots.»

All of those bills are being allowed by the Republican - controlled Senate — against the will of the Republican voters in the State — but Senator Skelos will reap many benefits from those votes without being blamed for them and without being held accountable.

In the post-mortem Republicans blamed the speaker Nancy Pelosi for making a partisan speech influencing Democrats, while the Republicans that crossed the floor did not like infringements on free markets from a «socialist» bill.

But Bill Lipton, director of the New York Working Families Party, which has sought to oust Republicans from Senate power, placed some of the blame on Cuomo for Democrats not uniting in the Senate.

Although the report concluded that the leak originated from the Republican side of the BOE and not the enforcement counsel's office — which is partially independent from the broader board, and has hardly had a history of amicable relations with it — de Blasio's allies continued to lay some of the blame on Sugarman.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie are both casting blame on the Republican - led State Senate for preventing them from bolstering rent regulations.

Under attack from Gov. Dannel P. Malloy — who gave him an «F for new ideas» and accused him of plagiarism — Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley blamed his campaign staff Thursday for copying language from Internet sources into an urban policy proposal that he released a day earlier.

They would also exempt the associations from some of the law's core insurance rules, which Republicans blame for increasing insurance premiums.

That's when noted climate skeptic, Republican Congressman from Texas, Joe Barton, decided to summon Noah's Great Flood as evidence suggesting that humans aren't necessarily to blame for all of this.

The AHCA saw opposition from all sides — Democrats, moderate Republicans, and the far - right Freedom Caucus — and Trump blamed them all in turn.