Sentences with phrase «national laughingstock»

The 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, which struck down the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools, turned the evangelical movement into a national laughingstock and provoked an evangelical retreat from politics.

«Unfortunately, our state capital has been the national laughingstock,» Vanel said.

It's the equivalent of LaGuardia Airport, which has now become a national laughingstock, right?»

In November, back when he was still fighting the charges, Mr. Grimm crushed his Democratic opponent Domenic Recchia Jr., a former city councilman, by a whopping 13 points in a race that had become a national laughingstock.

Democrats in the 8th congressional district can spare New York from becoming a national laughingstock.

Spitzer and Paterson, after turning the state into a disaster zone and a national laughingstock, are now determined to make sure nobody else can succeed, either.

With Albany in disarray and a national laughingstock, what can Cuomo do in a tough situation he has largely made for himself?

He had risen from poverty to become the highest - ranking Latino in New York State government — and, briefly and under bizarre circumstances, the third-most powerful man in the state — but only after single - handedly bringing the Senate to a standstill and making Albany a national laughingstock in the process.

It is the equivalent of LaGuardia Airport which is now become a national laughingstock,» said Cuomo.

«In most places, the majority party controlling a State Senate that became a national laughingstock would be on its way out,» the magazine said.

Add to the statewide race debacles the bizarro situation on Staten Island, where the GOP just made itself a national laughingstock with Fossella, and the NY GOP is heading toward a humiliating year.

GOP officials were gambling that distancing themselves from Akin, who had become something of a national laughingstock, would give them a better chance of winning the presidency as well as seats in other close Senate races.

Democrats will have to wait until 2019 to show that they can be better lawmaking than their 2009 colleagues who turned the Senate into a national laughingstock.