Sentences with phrase «partisan point scoring»

Beyond partisan point scoring, there is truly a case to uncover whether the disregard for reporting national and local spend is merely the done thing in the heat of a campaign.

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According to the Buffalo News, Collins» office declined an invitation saying «radical partisans» have co-opted the tragic mass shooting in Parkland, Florida to score political points.

It is not news, I suppose, that we stop doing politics at Christmas; it is the one day in the year when the partisan debate falls silent, when no points are scored, no rebuttals published, no policies proposed.

«Sadly, radical partisans have co-opted the Parkland tragedy in an effort to score cheap political points,» Minkel explained in an email.

I'm sure no one is planning on playing silly games with the British constitution to try and wreck a policy all parties have agreed on since 2001 or score cheap partisan points.

Gillibrand vowed to work in Congress to pass the DREAM Act to protect the immigrants, saying «we are better than needlessly targeting hardworking young adults to score crass partisan points.»

Nor are Labour exempt from cynicism as they failed to implement any concrete electoral reforms to the way MPs are elected to the House of Commons whilst in power from 1997 to 2010 but now their leader wishes to be seen as the reformer though he is still so partisan that he refuses to be seen in the company of the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, I personally assume therefore this is more about driving a wedge into the coalition, opposing David Cameron and general point scoring than a real desire for electoral reform for Ed Miliband.

But the Republicans have instead chosen to rush a partisan bill that has no chance of becoming law to score political points.»

This bit of partisan point - scoring represents the zenith of Microsoft's incredible success in the seventh console generation - the point at which even the President admitted that «Xbox» had became interchangeable with «games console «in the way that «Playstation» had at the turn of the century.

To say that radical Islam is largely on the far left is hardly a cheap partisan point - score.

I see no point in the partisan attack other than to score cheap points with the OilPrice readership.