Sentences with phrase «of obstructionists»

Actually, other than completely failing to get action because of obstructionists and liars, UNFCCC CoP has achieved rather substantial signing of treaties and changing of practices and laws.

Until then, we have a congress full of obstructionists idiots.

In the face of an obstructionist opposition, the Obama administration is practically emasculated until at least the election next November.

A few reports of obstructionist behavior by districts stand out and have been chronicled in these pages by Joe Williams («Games Charter Opponents Play,» features, Winter 2007) and Nelson Smith («Whose School Buildings Are They, Anyway?»

This article examines Saudi Arabia's involvement in the climate change regime, and argues that the delegation has long played the role of obstructionist.

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.

They exist, but they certainly are not the major obstructionists since there are so few of them.

Of course, the republicans will continue their obstructionist ways, and the evangelicals will continue their fight to destroy Consti.tutional freedom, but at least there a glimmer of hope for this countrOf course, the republicans will continue their obstructionist ways, and the evangelicals will continue their fight to destroy Consti.tutional freedom, but at least there a glimmer of hope for this countrof hope for this country.

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.

Republican obstructionist policies are vastly different from the regular push - and - pull of politics.

The UN warrant and the extravagant «new world order» rhetoric, however, are diminished by the operational unilateralism of U.S. policy in the Gulf and by years of abuse of the United Nations as a delinquent, a dropout, and a downright obstructionist in most fields of international cooperation.

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.

Polls in the province show 80 per cent of voters in favour of legalized midwifery, and legalization of the practice in Ontario has turned up the heat to the point where Quebec Health Minister Marc - Yvan Cote warned doctors that if they continue with their obstructionist tactics, he will skip pilot projects and go directly to legalization.

In a letter to park district commissioners, McHugh said he would not attend Thursday «s meeting because «my presence at the meeting would not be constructive and could possibly be construed as obstructionist to the workings of the new park board.

«And I'm not trying to be an obstructionist, but my feeling is that all this negotiating has... is maybe even part of the problem.

Many advocates of European integration see Britain as selfish obstructionists and would like them to pack - up and leave.

It means getting rid of a anti-tenant, pro-usury, anti-environment, pro-gerrymandering obstructionist.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer rejected the president's suggestion that hundreds of vacancies across the federal government exist due to «obstructionist» Democrats, saying the Trump administration has failed to select a nominee for 442 of the 500 vacancies.

``...» Ralph, to allow Carl Paladino to use you as a stalking horse or an obstructionist is not good for the future of the Party.

Astorino is an awful human being, whose entire career has been spent playing obstructionist and voting against the interest of the people of Westchester.

@Rick McDaniel, boy you're right because we've been getting plowed by your unpatriotic republican degenerates since Pres.Obamas been inaugerated and at midterms Rick I think we'll return the favor sending your obstructionists home... Don't worry Rick I'll think of a good send off for your moron buds as well!

And Vince Cable, Simon Hughes, Lord Adonis and Paddy Ashdown have all identified a certain Ed Balls as being the most obstructionist of the Labour negotiators.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- Two liberal groups that have been accusing Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson of undermining health care reform are stepping up their efforts to paint the conservative Democrat as an obstructionist.

«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.

Among the many benefits are these that would reaped in the districts of the two most obstructionist senators, Hannon and Phillips:

Expect a BIG swing in power come January of 2011, and then expect Pres. Obama to become the «obstructionist» candidate of «NO.»

If the Repubs try to play obstructionist from the start they'll get spanked in 2010 again and they'll be in the wilderness for a generation instead of just 10 years or so.

And how is your property going to benefit from an abandoned building nearby, which is likely to be vandalized, suffer graffiti, and all manner of defacement the longer it sits vacant because the minority decided to be bully obstructionists and live in some kind of retro delusion??!! Pfff.

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.

«I really believe that the county needs to do a better job of bringing everybody together and not being obstructionist and not being ideological,» she said.

«Hard to believe Obstructionists May vote against Mike Pompeo for Secretary of State,» Trump tweeted.

Yet at the same time, it is his Health Department that was conspicuously unhelpful, even obstructionist, when residents all but begged for help during the early going of the crisis.

The nomination of the executive of a company that profits by polluting the atmosphere escalated fears that Trump would withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement, withdraw it entirely from U.N. climate negotiations or become an obstructionist during those talks.

This is why it's crucial to leave the obstructionist opinions of Heartland and Dr. Soon out of true scientific conversations.

The politician, played with table - pounding brio by Miranda Richardson, has a hilarious running gag, repeatedly making mincemeat of her sniveling, obstructionist male aides.

Some educators worry about the fallout from these measures, such as the proliferating plague of standardized testing, but don't know how to oppose them without casting themselves as obstructionists clinging to a failed status quo.

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.

It seems that public opinion is rapidly turning the obstructionist tactics of the teachers union.

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.

Assistant Superintendent Mary Grace, who along with the superintendent helped oversee the obstructionist actions against parents, collected a total of $ 181,121 in 2014.

Parent groups get annoyed when the principal seems to be an obstructionist of good ideas, and principals get frustrated when their parent groups want every change to happen yesterday or when their parent groups don't remember the 178 other priorities — like faculty and test scores and swine flu and the curriculum and leaky faucets — that a principal also must face.

«Councils want to be regarded as improvement partners, not obstructionists to school improvement,» said Mr Watts, who is also the leader of Islington Council.

There needs to be an informational voice to even the playing field, to hold the obstructionists accountable and most of all, put the kids first!»

In spite of what anti-public school advocates say, we teachers are not obstructionists to true and helpful reforms.

The four states of «Difficult Steering,» a 1947 engraving, show a shape, rather like a horse's tail, flanked by two structures that become increasingly bulky and obstructionist.

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.

China has expressed interest in this, as have people in Washington (the state), Oregon, California and Baja — but everyone else in the Northern Hemisphere is being obstructionist, not putting the welfare of the nation and the planet first — you know how that is.