Sentences with phrase «bad as a the politician»

As bad as a the politician by the looks of it.

Not exact matches

As a rare CEO of a big bank who avoided the worst of the mortgage crisis, Mr. Dimon carries an influential voice, and one that many politicians would rather not hear.

No one is saying that the other religions / philosopies are not as bad, although I have never heard of a politician who follows Buddhist tradition trying to stop legalization of abortions, or an adherent of Jainism trying to stop same sex marriage.

Wow.Mr.Limbaugh's belated «apology «aside, I find myself stunned at the level of vitriol, rudeness, and sheer hatred we seem determined to spew at each across the web nowadays; its advent has obviously unleashed some deeply - buried, long - simmering resevoirs of hate, scorn, and opprobium that has finally boiled over among many of us.If we spent even a third of that energy seeking solutions to righting the badly - listing ship - of - state called America... Well.The politicians aren't going to do it, fellow citizens.As clever as we think we are venting over folly and nonsense on these websites, we had better get busy getting our nation's affairs in order, or we'll become the laughingstock of the world, with tiny,no - name third world countries thumbing their noses at us and telling us to «Get lost, America, you silly, Hollywood has - been.

Afraid of being branded as moralists, or even worse, proselytizers, politicians cling to surface arguments that remain in the public's comfort zone, choosing sides in the familiar debates on school prayer, pornography, media immorality and abortion.

In many eerie ways, this echoes the devolution of Adolf Hitler, although he began as a politician, then became his own amateur general (and a stubborn, unteachable one, and therefore a bad one); and then, pretty much skipping the whole serpent phase, he ended up as a spent, pathetic, vegetarian toad.

Which politicians wouldn't be interested in something UNICEF describe as «a natural safety net against the worst effects of poverty» or a factor shown to have a significant impact on the national economy?

So despite the fact that it isn't necessarily a «bad» word, populism is seen as a bad thing because it's a stance usually adopted by politicians whose intentions are not aligned with the best interests of the populace.

And while the globe faces a no less complex scenario than in 1974 the reaction is to shrug our collective shoulders at best and at worst talk down politics and write off politicians as venal and selfish.

Marching around saying it's «bullshit» whilst our politicians tour their constituencies in stab - proof vests, our bankers screw society for personal gain, our teachers describe classrooms as battlegrounds, our towns and parks have become no - go zones most evenings, our social workers come across the most appalling instances of abuse, just to name but a few of the most obvious examples - well, I think you need to produce a little more than some statistics and a bit of bad language to turn the narrative around.

For the record, while the politically powerful Nehru - Gandhi family has shown that concession was not a bad venture as some may think, the incommodious confusion of political party action with family matters by some particularly petty politicians, in my view, runs against the grain of human values.

Just as the Catholic Church, for example, struggles to deal with its own bad applies, so politicians must now confront the inherent weaknesses of their own arrangements.

The routine relies mainly on video segments of embarrassing errors by right - wing politicians — of which the hardened observer is likely to have seen already — as he gently guides his audience through a brief history of the worst the Republican party has to offer.

But there is bad new for all politicians as the poll investigated the public's feelings about the current media storm about MPs» pay and expenses:

Johnson and other city politicians deserve their problems because they are making it worse by cozying up to the governor against what they view as a weakened, lame - duck mayor.

The participants saw themselves as being potentially the worst affected by spending cuts, not least because they perceived politicians to take less notice of the views of young people than of those of older generations.

When you've had a bad day as a politician, pretty much the last person you want to be sitting opposite is Andrew Neil.

Just using the expenses scandal, as Labour politicians and the prime minister are trying to do, to excuse their very bad performance, I think, is a red herring.

We think that if you are a politician in charge of a department, and a department does its job as badly as the Home Office has clearly been doing, then you should resign.

An official internal inquiry into why the Lib Dems did so badly in this year's local elections has pointed the finger at advertising campaigns such as one which portrayed the politician as «Cleggzilla», trampling over public services.

And apart from the narrowing of the polls, there was some bad news for the Tory leader, as 62 per cent of voters described him as a lightweight politician, compared to 57 per cent a year ago.

As I stated the other day when calling on the governor to rescind this misguided action, everyone but the governor and some other politicians seem to understand that laying people off is bad for the economy.

Labour politicians, especially the surly Ed Balls and Ed Miliband, are portrayed as the bad guys: tribal, belligerent, arrogant and against coalition.

Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said that as a politician you must «always plan for the worst», and «that is what Jeremy Hunt is doing» with Ebola screening.

Andrew Lansley, long on death row since his health reform train crash, is out — as he should be, a decent man but a bad politician.

The worst conclusion to draw from the parliamentary expenses scandal would be, as the cliche has it, that «politicians are all the same».

In episode 206, Michael maneuvers for power as he and Kath prepare for an addition to the family; Tommy tries to clean up a bad neighborhood; Eileen gains perspective from the wives of other local politicians; Rose struggles with the reality of aging.

Or worse - as Mosley notes in his autobiography, if an accident on the magnitude of the 1955 Le Mans disaster occurred, «we would risk politicians banning motor sport».

So, all right: the surge in politicians» incomes over the past decade isn't quite as bad as it appears at first glance.

Most politicians do not have a clue as to what the real world is dealing with and I know there are way worse stories out there than mine.

Of course no politician is ever going to mention a tax, or worse, mandatory reductions in work so as to reduce carbon emissions quickly.

Thus, any politician that actually advocates or agrees to anything truly effective and equitable, which can so easily (given the mentality) be framed as «putting the country at a competitive disadvantage», will surely LOSE the next election — BIG TIME in the bad economic times that will surely prevail.

The study comes as scientists have predicted proliferation of these blooms as the climate changes, and amid increasing attention by the news media and local politicians to the worst cases.

Worse, the news media, climate activists, politicians, and regulators treat the «projections» as predictions, or forecasts, for purposes of stirring up public anxiety and trying to justify draconian anti-fossil-fuel policies.

Compared with the radical know - nothing litmus test for politicians we see now, on climate science most of the Bush Administration, bad as it was, was downright nuanced and moderate.Link to archived 11 - minute audio webcast.

It is bad enough that politicians such as Whitehouse and Grijalvi are playing this sort of political game with science and scientists, but I regard it as highly unethical for scientists to support defeating scientists with whom you disagree by such methods.

The coal industry and politicians traditionally labeled active community members as «environmentalists» with the thought that it was a bad thing.

As for the mushiness, Tierney needs to keep in mind that while the field welcomes criticism, it would be nice if said critics would actually try to work through the established scientific conferences and organizations instead of running out and trying to sway the public and politicians instead (again, another bad habit they seem to share in common with the creationists).

This large a change would bring out pitchforks and torches as people realize just how badly they've been used by a small group of scientists and politicians, how much they are the victims of indefensible abuse of statistics to average in the terrible with the merely poor as if they are all equally likely to be true with randomly distributed differences.

The six politicians who earned top honors as the «worst of the worst» in supporting policies that keep energy prices high and disproportionately hurt low - income families are these: Joker: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Joker: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Ace of Spades: U.S. Senator Dick Durbin Ace of Diamonds: U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer Ace of Clubs: U.S. Rep. George Miller (D - CA) Ace of Hearts: U.S. Rep. Ed Markey (D - MA) http://www.stopwaronpoor.org/

Evidence must re-engineer what I want as a politician, if not, the evidence is bad.

As usual with tech and politics, bad reporting combined with weak technical literacy among politicians is confusing matters (though of course I'm all for Zuck being asked questions by Congress).

I don't need to hear every death, every fight, every politician slamming each other, or worse, getting caught with their pants down, as it seems to be the norm lately (for Pete's sake, keep it in your pants or get a divorce!).

Our system of «Governance» is badly broken and needs a total overhaul and until that happens the Agent's seemingly bottomless pockets will be picked to support an every growing increasingly expensive bureaucracy and their voices will continue to fall on deaf ears much the same as they currently are by elected politicians at all levels of Government in Canada.

All of those politicians are as bad as each other.