Sentences with phrase «now as democrats»

He sits with the hard core mainline Democrats who are too dysfunctional to form a majority otherwise they'd be in control now as Democrats already have a numerical majority.

Here's an observation I've been meaning to write up since Netroots Nation this summer, but one that seems particularly relevant now as both Democrats and Republicans are getting their first views of their current legislators in action: if you want to change the direction of your party...

Here's an observation I've been meaning to write up since Netroots Nation this summer, but one that seems particularly relevant now as both Democrats and Republicans are getting their first views of their current legislators in action: if you want to change the direction of your party in Congress, or of Congress as a whole, fund challengers» staff early.

Not exact matches

Now Democrats are using that theme, with executives as the villains.

Sue Mintor, who ran against Scott as a Democrat, was a former transportation secretary for Shumlin and would have likely maintained the relationships Shumlin forged with Canada — with Scott's governorship, those cross-border ties are now up in the air.

«The paralysis you feel right now — the impotent helplessness that washes over you as news of another mass slaughter scrolls across the television screen — isn't real,» Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, said in the statement.

«As if a four per cent ferry fare hike coming in April wasn't enough, B.C. Ferries users will now be hit with a 3.5 per cent fuel surcharge starting this month,» said New Democrat ferries critic Claire Trevena.

But whether it's a taxpayer advocacy group, a policy institute, a coalition akin to the one now fighting proposed changes to private corporations, opposition Conservatives and New Democrats, or even a more tax - reduction friendly government such as Quebec, the idea of a $ 10,000 TFSA should be a positive rallying point for many reasons.

Solar power, which now generates almost 2 percent of the nation's electricity, has become popular among Democrats and Republicans alike, as people consider ways to have more control over their energy use and to reduce pollution as well as create jobs.

With planning and preparations underway for the summit with North Korea, and with Secretary Pompeo now engaged from the State Department, Republicans and Democrats should come together and confirm Gina Haspel as the Director of the CIA.

Warren stated, «Look, this is a real problem, but what we've got to do as Democrats now, is we've got to

Our current system is now broken as Republicans and Democrats have forgotten they serve the people and are under some self serving spell.

She said: «We're worried as Liberal Democrats and I'm personally worried about the divided nation we now have with people taking very extreme views and the rise of racism and hate crimes.

Rockefeller's subsequent divorce of his wife and 1963 marriage to the much - younger Margaretta «Happy» Murphy, a mother of four who had recently divorced her husband, cemented in the minds of many family - minded Americans an unpleasant nexus between loose morals and weak support for the military; it marked the forging of a large wedge of voters that now consciously identified itself as conservative and would grow to include Democrats as well as Republicans.

With this criticism of the Democrats offered as a testimony of their even handedness and sincerity, they piously go on to tell Republicans that now is the time to engage in bipartisanship and follow a course of compromise.

In my lifetime I've never seen Democrats as united as they are now.

The Democrats had become the party of the courts; their mission now was simply to protect the courts as the judges imposed policies on abortion, busing, and the environment that could not gather support at the polls.

This year Bunning and rookie congressman Tom McMillen, the Maryland Democrat who played 11 years in the NBA, (page 70) joined representatives Jack Kemp (Buffalo Bills) and Mo Udall (the old ABL Denver Nuggets) and Senator Bill Bradley (New York Knicks) in the Jock Caucus, as Udall has come to call the collective of five former pro athletes now serving in Congress.

The former Cleveland mayor served in the U.S House as a Democrat from 1997 to 2013, and is now a political consultant and Fox News analyst.

Eighteen candidates are vying for a U.S. House seat in central Ohio that Republicans have held for 35 years and Democrats now see as competitive.

Now, the Republicans have to duke it out amongst themselves before focusing 100 percent on Addabbo, which is good news for the dramatically under - funded Democrats as they try to decide where to allocate their meager resources for the re-match for control of the chamber.

Now, without the Liberal Democrats acting as the moral compass of government, they have been reintroduced.

The Conservatives under Mr Cameron are currently leading the polls as the most trusted party on the environment, although the government has now agreed to Tory and Liberal Democrat demands to introduce a climate change bill in the Queen's speech this month.

But now, even as leadership battle looms in the Senate, Democrats are poised to regain a numerical, 32 - member majority in the Senate.

Now he stands as the only candidate to lead his party, which has angered activists who believe a party with the word «Democrats» in its title can not allow a coronation.

Those ads didn't deliver victory for Democrats, but as I point out in the piece, they and other recent campaigns «foreshadow the targeted and nimble campaigns we can expect to see both sides use from now on.»

Now, however, Democrats have been putting the brakes on, citing the prohibitive cost of a special election as the main reason for their reluctance to make good on the governor's pledge.

Until now, even the most eager, and unemployed, floating voter is unlikely to have seen even one of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaders up close and personal, let alone, as they will be in the debates, not speechifying but tested and challenged live by their fiercest rivals.

So, having struck out at Unity» 08, Bailey and Rafshoon have sent out an email today encouraging support for Mike Bloomberg, an Iraq - war - supporting, pro-business,» 04 - Bush - supporting former Democrat / now - a-Republican who describes himself as fiscally conservative.

Mascia, who's now 70, is running for a seat on the Common Council as a Democrat in a three - way primary.

In fact, the Tea Partiers» online organizing may be more dangerous to Republicans than Democrats, as in the 2009 special election in upstate New York that swung a seat to the Dems for the first time in over a century (as an analogy, Joe Lieberman is still in office despite Ned Lamont, and Dems who want health care reform are now paying the price for his challenge).

As of yesterday, there are now three Democrats vying for the right to challenge GOP Rep. Nan Hayworth, who might yet face a primary challenge from Sen. Greg Ball in NY - 19.

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.

Neither is as effective as it could be without the other: Obama's perceived failures may demoralize many on the Left and make it harder to recruit and energize activists, but Democrats» inability to turn out their supporters in 2009 and 2010 helped create the very conditions that now force him to give in to the Tea Party types again and again.

Chris Cillizza (now at CNN) broke down the Democrats mentioned as potential 2020 contenders now that U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is out of the picture, and put Cuomo in Tier II.

Now, in response to the threat of democrats blocking a President Trump's SCOTUS nominee, Republicans are floating the idea of reducing the cloture to 50 votes for SCOTUS positions as well.

Not only did the Liberal Democrats alienate left - leaning voters by entering the coalition, but its leaders did as much as David Cameron and George Osborne to brand Labour as spendthrift and irresponsible — Nick Clegg by playing up the comparison between the UK and Greece, David Laws by brandishing the now - notorious note from Liam Byrne.

«As we keep it about the issues and as long as we keep moving New York state in the right direction, the best way is to be engaged, not sitting in a minority on the sidelines with 31 Democrats,» he said, adding, «The reason why we started at four and we're now eight — we must be doing something right — is because it's all about the issues.&raquAs we keep it about the issues and as long as we keep moving New York state in the right direction, the best way is to be engaged, not sitting in a minority on the sidelines with 31 Democrats,» he said, adding, «The reason why we started at four and we're now eight — we must be doing something right — is because it's all about the issues.&raquas long as we keep moving New York state in the right direction, the best way is to be engaged, not sitting in a minority on the sidelines with 31 Democrats,» he said, adding, «The reason why we started at four and we're now eight — we must be doing something right — is because it's all about the issues.&raquas we keep moving New York state in the right direction, the best way is to be engaged, not sitting in a minority on the sidelines with 31 Democrats,» he said, adding, «The reason why we started at four and we're now eight — we must be doing something right — is because it's all about the issues.»

If the Democrats try to use it as leverage now, they look really bad for trying to profit from tragedy.4 So now would be a bad time to try to ask for anything.

For example, Democrats are now suggesting looking to Socialist Countries as a potential model on certain issues.

«Now is the time for all Senators elected as Democrats to work together and achieve the functional Democratic Majority that New York voters elected this past November, and again tonight.»

Rice now has the support of two erstwhile AG candidates who were poised to challenge her status as the only woman in the five - person field of Democrats vying to replace Andrew Cuomo as the state's top attorney.

Mayer's win in the 37th District fills the seat vacated by Democrat George Latimer, who now serves as Westchester County Executive.

And influential think - tanks such as the Resolution Foundation and the Social Market Foundation are now giving credence to the idea that the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party may have more credible post-2015 deficit reduction strategies than a majority Conservative government.

The talks have now become known as «four men in a mansion,» because the leader of the breakaway Democrats in the Senate, Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein, has been included.

Democrats have used Ryan's budget as fodder, but now they may have the man himself.

«People believed in the change that Laura was advocating,» said Patrick Halpin, a Democrat who served as Suffolk County executive from 1988 to 1992, and now a lobbyist at Mercury Public Affairs in Manhattan.

The outspending to Democrats reflects the party's dominance in both the city council (where it now has 48 of the 51 seats), as well as the state assembly (where Democrats hold 102 of the 150 seats), Mr. Sheinkopf said.

As a result he has put Labour and the Liberal Democrats on the spot - they now will have to say whether they do support the idea of a referendum on the European Union and Britain's membership of it when a bill comes back to Parliament.

In alliance with a party that only had 1 MP in Scotland, needless to say the consequences of that alliance endured, it's now Labour, as well as the Tories and Liberal Democrats that have only 1 Scottish MP.