Sentences with phrase «political sleight»

It's not an insurance policy you collect on either (despite the political sleight of hand which pretends it is).

Rep. Louise Slaughter, D - N.Y., called the GOP plan «a political sleight of hand» that seeks to buy GOP votes - and pay for tax cuts for the wealthy - at the expense of New Yorkers.

But Representative Louise Slaughter, an upstate Democrat, said Republicans were trying «steal billions from New York to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy,» calling the shift «a political sleight of hand.»

She even tries to put a patriotic slant on it, with guttural calls for the strength of the British economy - a political sleight of hand that seems a little cheap and more than a little unfair.

«Shifting the local cost share to the state is a political sleight of hand — if Republicans steal billions from New York to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy it doesn't matter if taxpayers have to cover the cost at the county or the state level.

A similar political sleight - of - hand could be accomplished if Rangel files petitions and then declines the nomination, enabling his committee on vacancies to select a candidate to run in his stead.

The suspicion of the foreigner, and the hostility towards «the experts», that has grown up among thoughtful Brexiteers is not the effect of political sleight - of - hand.

Not exact matches

Steinhauer juggles political and personal loyalties with a master storyteller's sleight of hand.»