Sentences with phrase «by liberal progressives»

Despised by the far left, scorned by the far right, pushed aside by liberal progressives, mocked by tea party conservatives, we hold what may well be the most assaulted political position in America today.

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That figure is expected to grow by $ 31 billion by 2015 - 16, handing the Progressive Conservatives ammunition in their assault on the Liberals, who've doubled the province's debt since they took office nine years ago.

The Liberal leader, who owes her thumping electoral victory in large part to fear of public - sector job cuts promised by the opposition Progressive Conservatives, has promised to govern from the «activist centre.»

By my count, the parties have now nominated the following number of candidates out of 87 constituencies in the next election: Alberta Party 11/87, Liberal 20/87, New Democratic Party 49/87, Progressive Conservative 39/87, Wildrose 53/87.

Progressives will be expecting the government to deliver on its ambitious social agenda, and will note that this could be easily funded on the revenue side by implementing a modest corporate tax increase, by scaling back the so - called middle class tax cut, and by setting more ambitious targets for the promised Liberal review of tax loopholes for the most affluent.

This included circumscribing commitments covering cultural products, which was achieved through an exchange of side letters with the other parties, and reflecting elements of the progressive trade agenda of the Liberal Trudeau government, including through the change in the name of the agreement, a side letter eliciting strengthened labour commitments by Vietnam, and side letters acknowledging traditional knowledge.

Klein declared «miracle on the Prairies» on election night in 1993, after he secured the Alberta Progressive Conservative dynasty's seventh straight majority despite a bruising provincial deficit and a strong challenge (and erstwhile poll lead) by the Alberta Liberals.

It would be easy to take shelter in the categories determined by cultural and political ideologies: so - called conservative Catholics are expected to reject or downplay the urgency of environmental protection, and so - called liberal or progressive Catholics are expected to downplay marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

For Democratic presidents, Jewish justices (Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer) are seen as ironclad liberals by the party's progressive base, based on American Jewry's decades - old record of liberal activism.

The Catholic destabilization following the Council was advanced by liberal and progressive forces in the Church, but it had the unexpected consequence of making Catholicism, in the view of evangelicals, less the monolithic threat that they feared.

How can we who truly love the Church founded by Christ be divided into factionstraditional and liberal, conservative and progressive, loyal and dissenting!

This broad, liberal creed supported by a set of idealistic categories that never questioned seriously the progressive revelation of the mind of God in the existing personal and social relationships of man has been too much at home in this prosperous world to need to call out a rebellious Danish religious prophet who challenged the very categories of its thought.

By the way I think the progressive liberal experiment in modern social values is going extremely well [sic]... what do you think?

In my view, once you start going down the WWJD Road, you're now on the same road used by both Latin American and Black Liberation Theology which takes Jesus out of context to justify socialism which in the United States is supported by progressive liberals.

And he appears disinclined to credit the contribution to liberal democracy made — starting with the provision of a counterweight to progressive excesses — by those who cherish tradition.

By liberal Protestantism we mean those churches which stress the historical approach to the Bible and hence its spiritual rather than literal inspiration, and find the source of Christian authority not in any creedal statement but in God's total and progressive revelation of himself in nature, history, human experience, and supremely in Jesus Christ.

By the way, saying that progressive liberals are the enemies of authority is also wrong.

But the achievements of the progressive and liberal movements of the past are now called into question by the general obsolescence and breakdown of the arrangements that were made during the New Deal and postwar years.

Additionally and relatedly, the Church's opposition to same - sex marriage, to abortion, and to euthanasia are presented by the liberal commentariat, that has also been the main cheerleader for the «Yes» campaign, as indicating its unfitness to be part of a «new, equal, just and progressive Scotland.»

If people of faith are tired of be verbally assaulted and hammered 24/7 by the Liberal / Progressive Left and their minions; LGBT, go to polls November 6 and VOTE!

Sorry if it hurts but George Latimer is a big tax and spend liberal who's whole heartedly supported by Bill DeBlasio and the progressive machine he runs.

On the up side, theres an interesting statement by a group of progressive bloggers on the Liberal Conspiracy site, proposing what is almost a charter for leftish blogging.

Fearful of losing the Republican majority in the Senate, our RINO Senators are saying they must appease Andrew Cuomo and pass every liberal progressive bill sought by the democrats,» Paladino wrote in their email.

Those are the issues at stake for the Independent Democratic Conference in a video released Monday as the lawmakers in the breakaway bloc seek to re-affirm their support for liberal causes they believe has been lost in the pitched battle being waged by progressive advocacy groups to pressure them into forming a coalition with mainline Democrats.

Gillibrand spent considerable time wooing the labor - backed party along with other so - called «progressive» interests (the LGBT community, black and Latino stakeholders etc.) Her initial selection by Gov. David Paterson to fill the seat vacated by former Sen. Hillary Clinton was met with considerable skepticism — and, in some cases, flat - out hostility — from a number of key liberal figures, who subsequently either considered challenging her in a primary themselves or encouraged others to do so.

The progressive Conservatism being advocated by the Conservative Party today is thoroughly allied to a liberal agenda.

She was also backed Saturday by the New York Progressive Action Network, a statewide liberal coalition of 32 chapters and affiliates that includes many who backed Bernie Sanders.

The WFP, which is among a host of progressive and liberal groups that joined with protestors in recent weeks at the ongoing Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, says the plan announced yesterday by the mayor's office is merely an attempt to end the protests.

Nonetheless, enough conservative / right - of - centre parties outside the US use the moniker Liberal; so Progressive has been picked up by the left as a substitute.

If by liberal and progressive you imply in the use that they tend to vote Democrat, the answer should be yes, but not by as large a margin as is usually implied / guessed.

She has been backed by liberal groups such as the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Justice Democrats, and the Working Families Party.

In a coalition by contrast many of the policies and much of the influence comes from the progressive Liberal Democrat tradition.

The W.F.P. challenge is the most tangible manifestation of the frustration expressed by progressives toward Cuomo, and their displeasure that he has governed as a fiscal moderate, choosing to burnish his liberal credentials with social issues, like a push to legalize same - sex marriage and a new gun control law passed after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

A coalition of progressive and liberal organizations on Thursday backed a push to extend the millionaires tax and urged hiking taxes as well as backed by Assembly Democrats.

Gillibrand has made gay rights — including the repeal of «Don't Ask, Don't Tell» — a focus since she inherited former Sen. Hillary Clinton's seat in January 2009 as a means to demonstrate her liberal cred to skeptical progressives who were worried by her Blue Dog days in the House.

In 2014, he was still a new mayor, one who had ridden into City Hall on a hard progressive platform and a 73 percent electoral tsunami, who had installed the Council speaker of his choice and built a line of political credit with Gov. Andrew Cuomo by securing him support from liberal groups over the summer.

As part of the Progressive Agreement between Kirsty Williams and the First Minister, the Welsh Liberal Democrats secured an additional 20,000 affordable homes by 2021 and the introduction of a «Rent to Own» housing scheme that allows buyers to rent a home they can later purchase.

In the overwhelmingly liberal district that spans Cobble Hill, Brooklyn Heights and Park Slope, Ms. Simon helped cement her progressive credentials by repeatedly challenging the Brooklyn Democratic Party when Vito Lopez, a former assemblyman who resigned in the wake of a sexual harassment scandal, led the machine.

Surrounded by progressive and liberal leaders from around the country at Gracie Mansion Thursday, de Blasio compared the effort to the 1994 Republican Contract With America.

Her position is cheered by her liberal base — which plays an important role in a Democratic primary — because it has long sought more state and local funding for public schools and for progressive state programs.

Following on from the previous year's momentous wins by the Conservatives, this historic night seen them surpass those and win control of the council for the first time since 1932, when it won as the Conservative - Liberal combination Progressives party.

The conference where de Blasio will speak Friday morning — called «Forging a New Alliance: the Progressive Movement and the Socially Conscious Business Community» — costs $ 150 per person to attend and is sponsored by American Family Voices, a well - known 501 (c) 4 that supports Democratic and liberal causes.

Mr Corbyn said he was positive about improving his party's poll ratings and its performance at the ballot box, but also risked disappointing some senior Labour MPs by dismissing the radical idea of a «progressive alliance» with the Liberal Democrats.

One prominent New York liberal told me that many progressives were «horrified» by Cuomo's apparent fiscal conservatism.

Counteracting President Trump; bolstering the Affordable Care Act; and publicly funding campaigns are the issues at stake for the Independent Democratic Conference in a video released Monday as the lawmakers in the breakaway bloc seek to re-affirm their support for liberal causes they believe has been lost in the pitched battle being waged by progressive advocacy groups to pressure them into forming a coalition with mainline Democrats.

More importantly, by entering the Democratic Party, Sanders broke with the socialist principle of independent working - class political action.1 He became the «sheepdog» herding progressives, who had the option of voting for the Green ticket of Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka in the general election, back into a party run by the billionaire class he professes to oppose.2 Nevertheless, the broad liberal to radical American left is now discussing what socialism is and debating whether the Left should be inside or outside the Democratic Party — or both inside and outside.

But the rhetorical approach adopted by Mr Osborne last year has helped facilitate cooperation between the Tories and the Liberal Democrats, who rely on the «progressive» tag to sell the deficit reduction agenda to their supporters.

The proposal for the Post Bank will be formally launched at a Parliamentary reception hosted by Jon Cruddas MP this afternoon, with cross-party speakers including Pat McFadden, Minister for Employment and Post Offices, Vince Cable, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats, and Phillip Blond, Director of the Progressive Conservatism project at Demos.

[1]- Ironically, many true liberals in classical liberalism sense are currently trying to re-brand things back, by reclaiming «liberal» label for their left - libertarian positions (one of the most notable examples is Dave Rubin), while branding former - progressives - now - called - «liberals» as «progressive» again, on the basis that current US progressive movement is claimed by many to be against many individual rights and the basis of classical liberalism

Initially it was used by fringe sections of the internet right to mock socially progressive liberals, and then pretty much anyone who was against Trump.