Sentences with phrase «politicians of all stripes»

Politicians of all stripes agreed that job security was important — and job security increased over time until the mid-1970s.

History instructs us that it is common for politicians of all stripes to rely on overvalued currency to achieve policy goals.

Public Eye has been supported for the past two years by a small group of readers who have made monthly $ 10 contributions to keep me filing freedom of information requests, poring over government reports and holding politicians of all stripes to account.

CEO Randall Stephenson's $ 85 bln offer for Time Warner lacks strategic rationale, has politicians of all stripes criticizing it and has destroyed shareholder value while denying owners a vote.

Politicians of every stripe and persuasion call for a return to traditional and family values as the surest solution to the nation's woes, from crime and drug abuse to poverty and illiteracy.

However, what he said is a TOTALLY understandable level of frustration for people who've sat through one election cycle after another watching politicians of all stripes act like they just HAVE to offer lip - service to the insane religious right of this country.

Any politician can rattle on about ending austerity - and by god, politicians of all stripes do these days - but there needs to be more.

Tea Partiers in particular are a dangerous crowd to trifle with, because at heart they're purists like my friends Adam and Charles — they don't seem to trust politicians of any stripe, meaning that Cantor is potentially playing with fire.

The television age ushered in a more media conscious era, in which politicians of all stripe had to be mindful of the press.

It is understandable that U.S. politicians of all stripes vie to be seen as the one most capable of clipping the wings of their country's preeminent challenger — China.

«What they are seeing right now is politicians of all stripes not working for them.»

Incumbent and neophyte politicians of all stripes were present and hobnobbing at an East Hampton Group for Good Government meet - the - candidates affair on Sunday afternoon at Arthur and Laurie Malman's house.

Politicians of all stripes on the panel agreed that it has to be addressed.

«With voters plainly fed up with politicians of all stripes, it seems that fewer are ready to admit — perhaps even to themselves — who they will plump for next time,» ICM director Martin Boon said.

Leonard Litwin, one of the state's biggest real - estate developers and one of New York's most prolific donors to politicians of all stripes, including Governor Andrew Cuomo, may have helped fund a Virginia outfit that ran TV attack ads that helped Skelos and the Republicans retain a majority in 2012.

Without a ruthless clean - up man, all this referendum seems designed to do is cover politicians of every stripe with ordure — fuelling voter disillusionment

As CBS2's political correspondent Marcia Kramer reported, Bharara never blinked in the pursuit of Wall Street titans, terrorists and dirty politicians of every stripe.

But Nevada politicians of all stripes are steadfastly opposed to that idea, even as lawmakers from other states push to find a safer home for the spent fuel.

Influential writers and politicians of all stripes blamed him for a series of political blunders.

Traditionally, when on the campaign trail, US politicians of both stripes pose in front of archetypical red barns, to profit from their association with a wholesome America.

Politicians of every stripe have promised energy independence, but that promise has so far gone unmet.

Your opponents are politicians of every stripe that smell tax money to be made from AWG and greens, environmentalists and other anarchists who won't be satisfied until we are all living in mud huts.

This is set to rise steadily higher — yet it is being imposed for only one reason: the widespread conviction, which is shared by politicians of all stripes and drilled into children at primary schools, that, without drastic action to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions, global warming is certain soon to accelerate, with truly catastrophic consequences by the end of the century — when temperatures could be up to five degrees higher.

#JustJustice also found supporters amongst politicians of all stripes, including some who donated to the crowdfunding campaign at Pozible.

Not exact matches

This recent crisis has been particularly nasty, bringing down politicians, bankers, traders and businessmen of all stripes.

He has worked with Canadian politicians and policymakers of all political stripes to craft more effective public policy, including his most recent role as an outside economic adviser to Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.

Meanwhile, politicians from Scotland of all stripes, where many contracts and defence industries are based, have made their case to the defence secretary against cuts - arguing that the result would be drastic economic decline.

Before the mayoral election, politicians and establishment leaders of all stripes seemed... (read more)

It was not a time for any politician, of any stripe, to appear cozy with Wall Street.

The cycle of overpromising and disappointment has left donors, politicians and policymakers of all stripes looking to improve K - 12 public schooling with an underwhelming track record.

Politicians and citizens of various political stripes can all find something they like in charter school rhetoric.

«There's a tendency among politicians to always — regardless of political stripe — to always want to throw baubles out the window and pretty things — «Look over here» — you know,» he laughed.

I used to think that it was just the paid - up deniers whispering in the ears of politicians which kept the politicians confused; in the case of our PM though, I'm now more inclined to think it is that our politicians (of that stripe) project their own behaviour onto scientists, and therefore conclude that the scientists are acting in their own self interest, i.e. lying.

Trouble is, show this to a politician with the stripes of PM Tony Abbott, and all he'll think is that scientists have rigged the data.

[Response: In response to your response to my response... Yes, of course, deciding what is «best» is a political thing, and I'd be the first to join you in saying that I don't have particular faith that our politicians (of whatever stripe) can decide this for us.

In fact, climate science will probably remain easily misconstrued by alarmists of all stripes — both environmentalists eager to stoke public fears and antiregulatory activists and politicians fearful of any impediment to unbridled enterprise.