Sentences with phrase «to score political points»

A good and strong leader for a political party doesn't try to score political points with irrelevant cheap shots like that.

It is about scoring political points on something that has no hope of actually making a difference in the real world.

It isn't about scoring political points, it's about making sure that anyone responsible for not ensuring the safety of those families is held to account.

My request — my plea — to everyone involved in our political system is this: set scoring political points aside and focus on what is best for the nation as a whole.

«Those are reforms that will make a change, not just score political points, because now the politicians are feeling heat,» he said.

In the long run, what makes economic sense will prevail, not what scores political points.

In this case, the atmosphere, and the fate of future generations, must come before scoring political points.

At least try to engage in the issues rather than merely score political points.

I assume he was just trying to score political point with the accountability folks and public school parents since no useful results could have been provided.

In a statement, he assailed «Mr. DiNapoli and his surrogates (for trying) to score political points by making irresponsible and erroneous accusations about my future investment strategies for the state pension fund.

Such a forum is ideal for strategies like Gish Gallops, obfuscations and downright lies, especially when the anti-science side isn't interested in the truth but only in scoring political points and prolonging their kleptocracy long enough to join the filthy rich.

Loosely (extremely loosely), the media is hugely left - wing (leaving aside the point I agree with that left / right is a highly imprecise and largely meaningful term); and therefore anything the media says about the right - including calling Nazism «right» - is aimed not at some universal truth but at scoring political points against their opponents.

And if Watson is tempted to try to score political points for Labour over the Windrush scandal, he'd do well to remember that in 1961 Mosley published a by - election campaign leaflet backing a candidate for his father's Union Movement which said: «Coloured immigration threatens your children's health.»

If he wears ashes it will not be sincere of his religion but scoring political points over Gingrich who didn't go to mass as well as Paul and Romney who aren't Catholic and thus not the right kind of christian.

They couldn't bother to vote on legislation on child abuse at EU, but they're now trying to score political points from it.

And Rep. Brian Higgins, D - Buffalo, said: «The message of this order around the world is that we have sacrificed our values to score political points of dubious value.»

Many members of the oversight committees are not economically literate enough to do their jobs; they can only score political points.

«My request — my plea — to everyone involved in our political system is this: set scoring political points aside and focus on what is best for the nation as a whole,» he added.

No, the pint is that he was being intentionally being misleading and dishonest in order to score political points pandering to people who are too stupid for their own good, and apparently getting stupider all the time

Yet today he himself declared Welsh schools as «worse than Eastern Europe», in ignorance of the facts and in a naked attempt to score political points ahead of the election — no matter the damage done to Wales» reputation abroad, nor the morale of our pupils and teachers at home.

It is time to get beyond scoring political points and get back to finding common core values and passing legislation that will help grow our economy and get more people back to work.»

ALBANY — A day after attacking Donald Trump on national TV, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman moved to score political points off a pending case involving the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.

That a single department would receive queries from both political parties within a fortnight is a reminder that Republicans and Democrats feel the need to score political points where they can, dragging science into the spotlight when convenient.

He can't help scoring some political points, but the portrayal of the new Pope's emotional and spiritual struggles is poignant and affecting.

Unlike his colleague Michael Winerip (see next item), Sokolove doesn't seem bent on scoring political points here, as he describes how Bristol Township is facing its $ 10 million deficit (in a $ 123 million budget) «much like a couple talking around their kitchen table with a stack of bills, no hope of paying them and nothing but bad options.»

The facts aren't getting in the way of Dolores Gresham scoring political points, either.

Gay rights activists knew that these Republicans were not on their side, but by getting them on the record struggling to explain their bigotry, this questioning likely reached moderates in favor of equality, while also helping to create a political environment in which Obama and Democrats were able to set themselves apart from the Republicans and reaffirm their support for equality, while also scoring political points with an influential constituency.

During the Bush administration, Democrats discovered that they could score political points by accusing Bush of being anti-science.

The first general election mayoral debate, held Tuesday, was often devoid of substance amid repeated interruptions of a restive audience and candidates who seemed more interested in scoring political points than talking policy.

Barnes continued, «Nevertheless, it is disappointing that the Republicans continue in their never - ending attempt to score political points against Governor Malloy, especially on the issue of the state's finances.

This is an essentially meaningless bill whose sole purpose is to score political points for its proponents, who have already wasted hours upon hours of taxpayer time and money pandering to the religious right with unnecessary initiatives and bills.

There's a chance of that, certainly, but the strategists shouldn't let this sad news deter the leader of the opposition from scoring political points on a key issue affecting the country.

Perry failed to score political points when one of his supporters claim mormonism is cult.

His speech focused more on Labour's legacy and vision than scoring political points over his critics.

The other is a Donald Trump lookalike who never actually wanted to leave the UK but just score political points, and he has stepped back again, trying to create the impression that he was «stabbed in the back».

We're not talking about scoring political points with President Putin; we're talking about some good, old - fashioned puppy love.

Cuomo says it will benefit millions of struggling workers, but critics question if he's looking to score political points with unions after years of strained relations.

Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, said, «It's insane to me that something that works this well, that's been so bipartisan, is jeopardized to score political points.»

Is it possible that this nothing more than an opportunity to score political points?

President Donald Trump looks to score political points by lowering America's roughly $ 70 billion trade deficit with Japan, and sees expensive military equipment as a prime tool for doing so.

They think that the U.S. president is looking to score political points with his base, but that he won't want to upset the stock market record highs and the faster economic growth by putting up too many trade barriers, a move that probably would spook businesses and investors.

But what are we to make of such a man, who hijacks an event focused on the suffering of a mostly forgotten group of people, sandbags his hosts, preens self - righteously, and deliberately provokes an ugly reaction to score political points?

Today much of our debate about marriage comes from a similar hope to score political points.

You want to score political points by blocking the action to begin with, then score more by blaming the President for what Republicans did?

Instead, we focus on talking points, one - line zingers that can be Tweeted, and scoring political points to increase donations.

Extremism and ignorance exist in all religions, Ramesy is just a pathetic example of «Christian» extremism and who is trying to score some political points.