Sentences with phrase «just as a democrat»

Just as Democrats could not target churches for leaning conservative and demand that they should pay extra taxes, right - wing Republicans can not target universities based on ideological beliefs.

Just as Democrats are becoming increasingly reliant on younger, better - educated, and urbanized voters, Amazon's second headquarters could bring tens of thousands of such workers to a state.

The web is a natural haven for the out - of - power — part of its brilliance is that it can make mighty the small and small the mighty — and just as Democrats and progressives began working online in earnest after they lost Congress and the White House, Republicans will naturally use new media to create channels for organizing and message - distribution now that they've been pushed out of institutional authority.

Clearly, Republicans are hoping to keep the focus on the spectacle surrounding Mr. Weiner, just as Democrats were beginning to gain some traction politically by focusing their attacks on Republican efforts to overhaul Medicare.

Yes, Jim will probably vote with the Republicans and, as Mr. Gustavson said, «in lock step with the GOP majority» just as Democrat Albert Krupski did while on the board because that what will be what's best for the town.

The timing of a scientific report last fall that questioned the value of screening women routinely for breast cancer before age 50 was bad, coming just as Democrats were trying to push health reform through Congress.

Not exact matches

Crowley later claimed she was just «trying to move the conversation along» and, as for the outrage her interjection caused, she said of the Republicans: «I'm sorry they're upset, but tomorrow they'll be upset about something else, as will the Democrats.»

Within a framework of sustainable development — including a cap - and - trade system and thorough environmental assessments — New Democrats would prioritize our own energy security and with it the creation of high - paying, value - added jobs, refining and upgrading our own natural resources right here in Canada — just as other resource - rich developed nations like Norway already have.

It's just not clear Democrats would roll the dice again, as soon as 2020, on another prominent female nominee from New York.

As Republicans and Democrats lock horns in Washington over tax thresholds, small business owners say they just need some clarity.

GOP Representatives Ron DeSantis and Jeff Duncan both said a man police identified as Hodgkinson spoke to them just before the shooting and asked whether the people at the baseball practice were Republicans or Democrats.

The Senate Finance Committee's top Democrat, Oregon's Ron Wyden, was just as dubious of Trump's plan.

As that might suggest, this is more of a partisan issue than a securities regulation matter, even though the Democrat's academic enablers (you know who you are) insist it's just about good policy.

Libertarians are just as extreme in their own way as republicans and democrats have become.

Liberal Boomers, who seldom if ever seriously criticize the legions of conservative - demonizers in your midst, for this post I will mostly join Mr. Druckenmiller in accusing you outright, that is, I will act as if this was your premeditated plan motivated by selfish interest, and not a pattern of political self - delusion that you fell into, given the drip - drip - drip of Democrat talking points over the years, given your gleeful listening to those who dismissed conservatives as hateful dunces, so that you ceased to even consider the NUMBERS conservatives kept pointing to, and just kept on doggedly voting D.

Truth, I think if you actually look, the Republicans are just as culpable, if not more so, than the Democrats.

As for the being republican look at donators to the democrats they are in just deep with big oil as the republicanAs for the being republican look at donators to the democrats they are in just deep with big oil as the republicanas the republicans.

People of color have voted and will continue to vote for Barak Obama... The only thing he has done for people of color is be of color and be the elected POTUS... When Obama's eight years is at an end the person who runs against the next democrat will only have to campaign by stating repeatedly «I am a Republican»... Whatever doesn't go right in his administration will be blamed on Obama just as he blamed his failures on Bush... His signature health care program exempts Muslims, Scientologists, Amish etc..

you posted this earlier, and as i pointed out then you are just as guilty of sweeping statements, with the «majority of democrats» claim, that you are moaning about.

But religious diversity is actually significantly greater among Democrats — for example, Pew reported in 2011 that just 11 % of Muslims affiliate with Republicans, while 60 % identify as or lean Democrat.

Just as Ryan keeps insisting, contrary to all evidence and common sense, that people don't care whether you cut their taxes or those of their bosses, he will keep insisting that his unpopular policies will win over Democratic - leaning voters, even as those voters keep voting Democrat.

I guess Democrats can be just as dull as Republicans.

This holds true not just for the Democrats» standing today at the national level, but at the state level as well, where Republicans gained control of at least seven new governorships and fourteen state legislative chambers, giving them their highest total of state legislative chambers since the 1920s.

I'd say there are as many «types» of Libertarians as there are Libertarians, just as there are many «types» of Republicans, Democrats, Communists, Fascists, whatever.

I've met other Christians who vote Democrat because they feel just as strongly that Jesus» call to minister to the poor, sick, and disenfranchised is best answered by the policies of the Democratic party.

Well, he would have become one of the best «Democrat» presidents in American history — just as Obama has become one of the best «Republican» presidents in American history.

Just as many democrats or humans in general despite party lines believe in the one only true Jehovah God.

Will Conor Lamb, a Catholic who just won as an «anti-Pelosi» Democrat in a district Trump had carried by some 20 points, and others like him move from being «personally» against abortion to letting their faith inform their profession?

The Democrat believes that Obama is the Messiah, that they along with Obama are incapable of being wrong or making a mistake (drive in the ultra blue, they slam into your lane running you off the road and look at you as if it is your fault - or just watch «dem on Jersey Shore and shows like that).

Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, it just doesn't matter as all these things are not a political issue but a humanitarian one.

Of course, this is music to Democrats» ears, because if Trump runs as a third party candidate he will split the Republican votes, just as Ross Perot did in 1992, paving the way for another Clinton victory.

In another part they simply thought that the «blue dogs» (Democratic voters that always voted Democrats), would all vote for Hillary (as well as she herself thought that) but after what she pulled of against Sanders many of them just didn't vote at all or voted Trump just to pay Hillary back.

But de Blasio insisted — just as Gov. Andrew Cuomo repeatedly has — that this decision rests with the Assembly Democrats, and them alone.

Indeed, Bush wants to expand it, just not as broad an expansion as the Democrats want.

The federal bill that will provide New York with some $ 2.6 billion in Medicaid and education aid just passed the US Senate 61 - 39 (no surprise, as that was the same as yesterday's cloture vote in which two moderate Maine Republicans joined with the Democrats to end the GOP filibuster).

And, they can see just how eager he is to talk with a prominent Republican donor and a key hub in the «vast, right - wing conspiracy,» even as he has no time to talk with Democrats and labor supporters.

The Liberal Democrats came sixth with just 474 votes, after left - wing party Solidarity, who had former MSP Tommy Sheridan as their candidate.

Two other signatories to the agreement had been notable players in the political drama thus far: the secretary of state for Scotland, Liberal Democrat MP Michael Moore, and Nicola Sturgeon who, as deputy first minister of Scotland, had concluded the referendum negotiations just days before Salmond and Cameron had put pen to paper.

Essentially, Senate Democrats are pushing the notion that the court can still draft legislative lines itself, just as a magistrate did with the House districts.

About two - thirds of atheists (69 %) identify as Democrats (or lean in that direction), and a majority (56 %) call themselves political liberals (compared with just one - in - ten who say they are conservatives).

With just seven per cent of gifted and talent pupils receiving free school meals, the Liberal Democrats point out children from low income families are half as likely to be identified as gifted.

It wasn't just the media referring to him as a Treasury spokesperson for the Lib Dems, in their Autumn Conference Directory he is listed as being on the «Lib Dem Treasury Team» on page 28 and as «Spokesperson for the Treasury» on page 79: Liberal Democrat Autumn Conference Directory 2010 (7.6 MB PDF)

New York is one of just two states (along with North Carolina) that still does that, and the effort to end this practice has become a big rallying cry for Assembly Democrats and the IDC, as well as a big sticking point in the budget talks.

Labour made a net gain of just two from the Conservatives, whilst the Liberal Democrats collapsed in suburban England and their south - western heartlands as the centre - left vote fragmented and centre - right voters moved over to the Tories.

Skelos's sentencing comes just over a week after his former counterpart, ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, was sentenced to 12 years in prison in a separate case involving the Manhattan Democrat masking bribes as legal referrals.

It is notably NOT a fundraising appeal, but rather a just - in - case organizing tool so Engel can, as he puts it, «be ready to take on whomever and whatever the Democrats have to throw at us.»

«The problem with that is when Democrats adopt the worst part of the rhetoric of the Tea Party movement, the distrust of incumbents, per se, it's not just an attack on me, it's an attack on Andrew Cuomo — as much as he and I are parallel in our experiences as part of the Albany government,» Brodsky argued.

While he feels secure as a fellow Democrat in pressing Espada to give up his title, Breslin rejected Republican Sen. Marty Golden's planned resolution that would force a vote to do just that, calling it «pandering.»

This primary challenge came just days before the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported he had consulted on Lovely Warren's Democratic primary challenge of Rochester Mayor Tom Richards in 2013, a report Nojay described as old news.

Republicans were served another reminder of President Donald Trump's unpopularity as Democrat Jon Ossoff nearly captured a House seat in a region that for decades has been a conservative stronghold, though he fell just short of the percent needed to avoid a runoff.