Sentences with phrase «conservative wonks»

What Republicans can do is use the findings of the Oregon study and the work of conservative wonks to address people's health care and earnings concerns.

Conservative wonks like to dangle images of companies taking advantage of the big new influx of funds to build factories and hire workers, because that paints an appealing picture of what the strategy amounts to.

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The wonks of Westminster scratch their heads at opinion polls that show Labour and Conservatives neck and neck.

For those wonks who sifted through his speeches before he led his Lib Dem party into the coalition in 2010, there was ample evidence that Clegg would prove an amenable ally to a slash - and - burn Conservative government.

In an event anticipated among local wonks, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner (a liberal Democrat) teamed with Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci (a Conservative Republican) to argue against the metropolitan government plan proposed by the community group Consensus.

Wonks love the frisson of danger from embracing an idea that their ideological allies don't like, whether they are conservatives committed to states» rights or liberals troubled by inflexible standards.

Today, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a prominent conservative think tank, hosted a secret, four - and - a-half hour meeting of pols, wonks, and activists, including several self - identified «progressives,» to develop a PR / legislative strategy to promote and enact a carbon tax.