Sentences with phrase «obstructionist on»

And, the Democrat (Johnson, DINO) that won the seat from the Republican's Ditzy Maureen O'Connel has been a direct obstructionist on the Mainline 3rd Track issue which makes Skelos» fence straddling actually pretty progressive by comparison.

Not exact matches

Which way you lean in this Presidential campaign depends a lot on whether you think government spending is capable of doing any good, or whether it is by its nature obstructionist.

«The B.C. NDP government has only gotten more obstructionist since the meeting with the Prime Minister on Sunday,» Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said in a Twitter post Tuesday.

A conservative is not merely an obstructionist, a brake on frivolous experiment.

It's their way or the highway and to compromise is to show a lack of faith which means you have one side willing to make exceptions for all peoples religions as long as they don't force it on others, and the religious side that says making exceptions or compromising is against their religion so if they are not a majority in the democracy they instead decide to play obstructionist.

The bad faith that has come to characterize this perspective is clearly evident in the role that many prolife advocates have played in a confrontational, often obstructionist, single - issue politics, often bordering on fanaticism and ignoring the wider spectrum of prolife issues.

Remember from the beginning of the Obama administration the very public mantra was «our number one priority is to make Obama a one term president» and the Greedy Obstructionist Politicians made good on their promise with record numbers of filibusters and anonymous objections with the sole purpose of making government as non-functional as possible.

«The point I was trying to make was just like any other special interest group, the leadership of this union is more extreme and more obstructionist than its members,» Bloomberg said on Monday.

«The question for every New York State lawmaker is do you want to be remembered as a leader on civil rights, or an obstructionist?»

«If obstructionists in Congress insist on delaying any federal action on fair and just immigration reform, it falls to municipal governments to pick up the slack,» Ms. Mark - Viverito said.

While Democrats believe the Republicans will appear as obstructionists, Republicans think their argument is actually tapping into voters» frustration that Washington, controlled by Democrats, is out of control on spending.

The foundation has already committed some $ 135 million to overhauling fundamental aspects of urban school districts: identifying new sources of talent for positions of authority; developing alternative training methods for managers, principals, and teachers union leaders; creating new tools for analyzing performance data; and working with school boards to help those sometimes obstructionist bodies become more focused on student learning than on petty power plays.

On a related issue: education reformers often decry the obstructionist power of vested interests, especially those of teachers unions.

Today's education reform climate seems to focus on a misguided narrative of unions as obstructionists and educators as villains, ignoring how educators and their unions are leading successful reform efforts all across the country.

The communications team there painted teachers unions as selfish and obstructionist forces, more intent on protecting their members than serving needy students.

It creates on obstructionist relationship with the collection industry, that in turn, makes success more difficult for a debt settlement companies clients.

And of course on one of the key goals above, the Democrats in the US Congress have been the primary obstructionists.

Though I disagree with the first commenter that environmentalists as somehow by nature obstructionists, advocates on all extremes of this debate will have to be ready to sacrifice their sacred cows.

This puts Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a bind: He knows he needs to increase India's power supply (one avenue for doing this is investing in dirty coal - fired plants), but he also knows that being the lone obstructionist at global climate talks will impede his ability to deliver on a range of his campaign promises, many of which require global finance.

Some, such as Google, have cited ALEC's obstructionist stance on climate change, while Exxon has given $ 1.7 million between 1998 and 2014 and was among the top funders of the annual ALEC conference in July 2016.

Also not much doubt that Obama will fail to convince Abbott that action on climate is high priority; I'm sure that climate obstructionist Republicans will be in Abbott's ear, assuring him that they will soon undo everything Obama does and more, and praising him for his taking a wrecking ball to anything climate related.

More on Global Climate Treaty Obama Paves the Way for International Climate Treaty Russia Joins Global League of Climate Obstructionists, Putting Future U.N. Treaty in Doubt

We Americans have garnered ourselves quite a little reputation as foot - dragging obstructionists when it comes to global warming; the arctic is melting, our crops are drying out, the problem is staring us in the face, the rational world is moving to act, and our politicians and pundits blather on about sunspots and debunked conspiracy theories.

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To be clear, I do not for a moment hold the view in law that filming a police interaction or reading off one's rights is obstructionist as a matter of law and should never warrant charges; however, I practice in a world where I argue on a daily basis why police overreacted and the charges ought to be withdrawn.

And while casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam Ochsorn are on the party's more moderate wing, they have long stood behind the calculating, conservative Senate leader, McConnell, who even before the Tea Party's rise was known as an extreme obstructionist (paywall), dedicated to stomping out the bipartisan compromises that historically made the US government work.

Given the on - going social disadvantage and distress of Indigenous communities in Australia, the continuing string of judgments negative to native title rights in the Australian courts, and the at times hostile and obstructionist behaviour of federal and some state governments, the argument to take close note of Canadian developments is compelling.