How To Use Obstructionist In A Sentence
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He represents a party which has been nothing but obstructionist," sputtered Valeriani, amid much booing and hissing from the audience.
HUFFPOST HILL - OCTOBER 22ND, 2010
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He just barrelled ahead, determined to become the most obstructionist minority leader since the antebellum days of the 19th Century.
Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 16, 2010
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All in all, just the Newt's way of working the media so that if he doesn't get another chance at further damaging our country with political partisanship and using Sarah's coattail to get there he'll send Sarah as the substitue "malleable" obstructionist - scary indeed.
Gingrich says Palin 'tremendously important'
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‘We would be fools if we were to try to be obstructionists,’ she said.
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This is simply political grandstanding from the obstructionist party, but I certainly don't know why this is even newsworthy.
Hatch: 'This is one lousy bill'
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February 25, 2009 at 02:19 PM best speech in a long time..it was very great to hear president obama speaking with a clear sentence who made sense..the grand obstructionists party proved that they don't care about the american people at all so we should let them continue to make fools of themselves because the next serious elections, they will be voted out..president obama rocked the house and made everything clear for all americans to understand..gops are still mad because president obama won the white house and beat them at their own game!
Strong ratings for Obama speech -- The Live Feed | THR
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The term filibuster traces back to the Spanish word filibustero or pirate (itself derived from the Dutch vrijbuiter or freebooter) and refers to the capacity of obstructionist legislators to hijack or "pirate" legislative debate.
Jerome Karabel: Bring Back the Cots! The Filibuster and Health Care Reform
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We can't ask others to play by rules we write concerning the global economy, only to then be obstructionists when it comes to necessary action to protect the environment.
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All in all, just the Newt's way of working the media so that if he doesn't get another chance at further damaging our country with political partisanship and using Sarah's coattail to get there he'll send Sarah as the substitue "malleable" obstructionist - scary indeed.
Gingrich says Palin 'tremendously important'
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An aggressive, obstructionist Duma (Russia's lower house of parliament) dominated by Communists blocked any attempt at reform.
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The press conference shows Obama's plan for re-election beginning to crystalise as he portrays himself as the champion of job creation and the Republicans as obstructionist champions of the rich.
Obama ultimatum to Republicans over jobs bill millionaire tax
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I'm sure it was exhausting, took unbelieveable work hours, and was extremely frustrating in dealing with lying, obstructionist Republicans.
White House's top health care spokeswoman resigning post
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While more Americans die without proper healthcare, the obstructionists clammer for a do-over.
Think Progress » After complaining that health care bills were too long, Boehner now complains that Obama’s is too short.
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Campbell launched the first round of obstructionist lawsuits challenging the acts of the legislature in 1868, a year during which Republican officials had faced a difficult situation.
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In all of these things he has undermined the purpose of the reforms through lack of clarity and finickity detailed negotiations that hand obstructionists the whip hand.
The Age News Headlines
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The Republicans rattle the flag and jeer from the sidelines, but owe the public an explanation why they are not the Grand Old Obstructionist Party ...
Painful, but amusing
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Another attempt by Republican Obstructionists to "bamboozle" the American taxpayers.
Obama touts financial reform, says GOP stance 'deceptive'
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They should crusade for changes in Senate procedures that would prevent an obstructionist minority from delaying action indefinitely.
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The pair are portrayed as a kind of Axis of Evil, due to liberal Seattle's distaste for anti-tax balloter Eyman, and the pro-tunnel campaign's portrayal of McGinn as obstructionist.
The Seattle Times
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The obstructionists cannot unring the bells we've heard.
Let's move past Wilson's outburst, Cantor says
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After watching Max Baucus waste the entire summer with his futile bipartisan poker game with a bunch of obstructionists who never intended to support any viable health plan I can say with great confidence that the Senate as currently configured is in a persistent vegetative state.
Think Progress » Sen. Alexander: Using Reconciliation To Pass Health Care Reform Would ‘End The Senate’
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The media is again fuelling the fires on a situation that is too important to define by just the obstructionists. barb
Obama: Status quo is scarier than health-care overhaul
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Someone demand to see the GOP version of Finance Reform and when they don't produce it or say sorry, the copier is jammed or my dog ate it, expose them for the obstructionists that they are.
FAQ: Wall Street reform bill
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The only embarrassment is the GOP's continued hypocrisy and their obstructionist tactics.
MN GOP calls Franken-Lieberman incident an 'embarrassment'
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There is no use ignoring the obstructionist approach that China displayed in Copenhagen, and the fact that this is unhelpful if a forum such as the UNFCCC is to be successful.
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We're going to be hearing a lot more of this kind of obstructionist talk in the next few days and weeks, so here's what's worth passing on to politically noncommitted friends and relatives: Government-funded jobs are real jobs.
RJ Eskow: Wait ... Didn't Michael Steele Just Say My Parents Never Had Jobs?
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As usual, the obstructionist GOP puts PARTY first, America and Americans last - taking yet another opportunity to put their "pro-life" anti-abortionist demands out there as blackmail:
Abortion once again roils health care debate
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It often happens, however, that, though they see the amphiboly, people hesitate to draw such distinctions, because of the dense crowd of persons who propose questions of the kind, in order that they may not be thought to be obstructionists at every turn: then, though they would never have supposed that that was the point on which the argument turned, they often find themselves faced by a paradox.
On Sophistical Refutations
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Graham of the obstructionist party who has no plan, who has had no plan other than tax cuts for the rich, deregulation of those same rich, and wars galore, is accusing the Obama administration of doing a terrible job running the country.
Graham: Dems engaging in 'seedy Chicago politics'
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His fellow Republicans ignored him and were about to let his expire, but fellow Kentuckian Mitch McConnell realized they needed him to maintain his hold on the bill if they were to keep up their obstructionist agenda without anyone useful getting blamed for it.
Think Progress » Bunning Whines About Missing Basketball Game, Tells Dems ‘Tough Sh*t’ On Unemployment Benefits
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A class is created of dogged self-righteous obstructionists with a vested interest in the status quo, however obsolescent, however decayed, however inappropriate to the site.
