…of conservatives attacking national security apparatus for political gain. Conservatives have long demonstrated their willingness to trade our national security for political gain. Obstructing national security policy by blocking votes on key nominees. Senator Richard Shelby (R-IA) has put…
…=5a6T -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Dear John, Mitch McConnell and Republicans are at it again - obstructing efforts to hold the financial industry accountable for narrow political gain. They're blocking common sense rules to protect consumers and to prevent…
…from Republicans who claim to believe that on Election Day voters gave them a “mandate” to continue their attempts to obstruct President Obama’s agenda. Apparently some Republican pundits are still living in the same parallel universe that allowed them…
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…As the outlook on passage of health reform improves, Republicans have shifted to a new obstructionist strategy: attacking the process of reconciliation. Republicans claim that reconciliation was only intended to be…
…the worst scenario, which is at least as likely, if not more so--Iranian cheating on its explicit terms and obstructing the IAEA inspections necessary to verify the Agreement; the difficulty of sanctions “snapping-back” if there are violations; a…
…wp-content/uploads/2013/05/05.2013-Mandel-Carew_Regulatory-Improvement-Commission_A-Politically-Viable-Approach-to-US-Regulatory-Reform.pdf ] was cited as evidence of current regulatory obstructions for entrepreneurs in a Huffington Post op-ed by U.S…
…of the Cascade Mountains and asserting that in the effort to stem climate change, "America can lead and not obstruct." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/us/politics/14mccain.html?ref=politics McCain: Clean energy a 'national security issue' (CNN…
…stations. Turkey's pro-government and opposition media were also dueling, charging either opposition parties or the ruling party with obstructing ballot observers, sometimes through force. As polls closed in the Kurdish-dominated city of Diyarbakir in Turkey's southeast…
…their products with customs exemptions like real Israeli wares. My colleagues and I went to Brussels to protest, but were told by polite bureaucrats that Germany and others were obstructing any step toward a settlement boycott. Eventually, the Europeans moved…
…expected to produce a big aid package for Israel, giving the factions on Capitol Hill a chance to kiss and make up. But conservatives are exploring possible amendments to obstruct the Iran deal. Ben-Ami said that would cause trouble.…
…3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fnews%2Fstories%2F0709%2F24551_Page2.html%23ixzz0KU5KKCjn%26C> *, 7/6/09: "'I take pride with being an obstructionist,' he said, if that means scuttling a public option that could lead to a single-payer system…
…not be sanctions relief until Iran stops supporting terrorist proxies or until it permanently gives up nuclear enrichment for peaceful purposes—we would give detractors a powerful tool to try to obstruct our future efforts on issues unrelated to Iran…
…worse." Despite these warnings, the Bush administration has done nothing but obstruct efforts to address the effects of climate change including staging a walk-out at the Montreal UN Climate Change Conference and making the U.S. the only industrialized…