So if the obstructionists want to get with me, let's make them non-obstructionists.
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So if the obstructionists want to get together with me, let's make them non-obstructionists.
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" To Democrats: "So if the obstructionists want to get together with me, let's make them non-obstructionists and we'll get back into the deal and we'll make it good.
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The Democrats have become obstructionists; that's all they're good at.
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Tell Washington Democrats and the obstructionists, work with our president.
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Tell Washington Democrats and the obstructionists: work with our president.
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Yet JCN's ad disproportionately depicted Democratic women as obstructionists, Baker said.
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They become obstructionists because they have no message of their own.
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They became obstructionists because they have no message of their own.
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But this is not enough to convince some obstructionists in Congress.
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How many times has Republican leadership complained about Democrats being obstructionists?
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Or are people just seeing conservatives for the obstructionists that they are?
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If I don't get the wall, then we will become the obstructionists.
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For years, the party has demonized judges as unreconstructed Communists and obstructionists.
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Some centrists facing tough reelection races are worried about being labeled obstructionists.
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Also, define yourself and your opponent early, and label Democrats as obstructionists.
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But none of that matters to the right-wing obstructionists in Congress.
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After years spent as obstructionists, obstruction seems to be all they know.
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Democrats have already started calling out their Republican counterparts as do-nothing obstructionists.
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Obstructionists will almost certainly be the subject of ridicule in a Trump tweet.
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He called it "hard to believe" that "obstructionists" may vote against Pompeo's confirmation.
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"We have hundreds of people sitting out there, and they're obstructionists," Trump said.
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The Democrats have become nothing but OBSTRUCTIONISTS, they have no policies or ideas.
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"You can't do this anymore with the obstruction and the obstructionists," Trump added.
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It would be nice to get Democrat support but really they are obstructionists.
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ObamaCare is dead and the Democrats are obstructionists, no ideas or votes, only obstruction.
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To Trump and his allies, the departures have been liberating, a purge of obstructionists.
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WARSAW — First Poland's governing party labeled her and her fellow judges communists and obstructionists.
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So why are they acting like obstructionists now that we have a Republican president?
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It will be harder to win over those voters if Democrats are perceived as obstructionists.
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They could be labeled as obstructionists shirking their constitutional duty simply to score political points.
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"Hard to believe Obstructionists May vote against Mike Pompeo for Secretary of State," Trump tweeted.
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During the interview Sunday, Manchin was asked about Trump's comments that the Democrats are obstructionists.
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If Pelosi fails, Republicans have more ammunition to scorch House Democrats for being impeachment obstructionists.
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Congressional Democrats, in contrast to the last eight years, will and should be the obstructionists.
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Now, they're fighting for their turf, but I don't think they're going to be obstructionists.
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The Dems are obstructionists but the Republicans can have a great victory for the people!
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"The fact is, we need more Republicans because the Democrats are obstructionists" hindering a legislative solution.
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In their eagerness to show voters that they're not just obstructionists, Democrats have simply rolled over.
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Memo to Freedom Caucus: Trump base is the American people not a small faction of obstructionists!
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An unsurprising theme has emerged: Democrats are obstructionists, disruptors, and — generally speaking — very unfair to the president!
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Democrats can vote against Gorsuch's confirmation without being seen as obstructionists if they first vote for cloture.
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The VA is currently undergoing a massive transformation and is making fantastic progress, despite obstructionists like Miller.
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This would prevent obstructionists from simply eating up the Senate's time by demanding 30 hours of debate.
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Democrats are trying their best to cast Republicans as obstructionists who should be blamed for Washington's dysfunction.
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By refusing to do the job that every previous Senate has done, they look like deranged obstructionists.
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And it worked: Democrats cried "Obstructionists!" but Republicans still took the House in 2010 and the Senate in 2014.
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Obstructionists blocked his $50 billion "roads, rails and runways" proposal in 2010 and his American Jobs Act in 2011.
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Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, said this week Republicans could appear as "obstructionists" if they reject a nominee outright.
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" July 22: Trump says the Democrats "are obstructionists," and that "it is solely up to the 52 Republican senators!
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GOP lawmakers, who were often dubbed "obstructionists" during the Obama administration, are now using the label to describe Democrats.
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When he decided not to seek re-election, he expressed his contempt for Tea Party representatives, calling them obstructionists.
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These obstructionists are doing everything they can to hold off the inevitable racial diversification of American society and politics.
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If Democrats have a chance to help average working families and show they're not obstructionists, they should take it.
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Trump has frequently criticized Democrats as "obstructionists" and called for voters to elect more Republicans to enact his agenda.
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AND BOTH THESE PEOPLE COULDN'T EVEN HAVE BEEN ELECTED, THEY'RE HERE, AND THEY'RE NOW PROBLEM SOLVERS AND THEY'RE NOT OBSTRUCTIONISTS.
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Republicans have accused Democrats of blocking the bill to gain political advantage by portraying Republicans as obstructionists on Zika funding.
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So I think when you really look at it all, it's not going to change any of the Democrats, they're obstructionists.
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J. Edgar Hoover became concerned that Jewish obstructionists in the State Department were asking too many questions about the scientists' backgrounds.
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It would certainly offer obstructionists on both ends of the political spectrum new opportunities to rally their supporters and raise money.
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But he will not be joining the obstructionists who this year never let a bill come to a vote at all.
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He said "it would be nice to have Democratic support" and called the party's senators "obstructionists" for not getting behind the plan.
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With the Republicans keeping control of the Senate, though, Democrats will need political smarts to avoid being painted as the new obstructionists.
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Mr. Trump, writing on Twitter, labeled those voting against Mr. Pompeo "Obstructionists" and said he needed more Republicans in office in their place.
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" The day before, his mind had been on Democratic "obstructionists," possible "treason" by Russia investigators, and the perfidy of the "fake news media.
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After castigating Democrats as obstructionists, Mr. Trump may now seek common cause on areas of mutual interest like infrastructure projects, immigration and taxes.
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Mr. Trump also condemned Democrats as "obstructionists" — but then added that he wanted to work with them and might be damaging those prospects.
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Democrats should use this nomination fight to tilt the politics in their favor: by painting the Republicans as obstructionists, pointing out that the "tradition"
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Trump is planning a series of political rallies and events in the coming months to boost Republicans and brand Democrats as obstructionists to his agenda.
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Obstructionists on both ends of the political spectrum frequently raise their fists when either rises to challenge policy orthodoxy for the good of the country.
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The last such knock-down-drag-out process happened during Ronald Reagan's administration, in 1987 and 1988, when Senate Democrats—not Republicans—were the obstructionists.
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President Trump should jettison the obstructionists and ideological purists and put his efforts into forging a new nationalist coalition that transcends the old fault lines.
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He took on Democrats as "total obstructionists," even as he later said several would vote for his proposals and work with him on health care.
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It's simple really: Continue to portray Democrats as obstructionists; incite all out warfare within the GOP; and deliver more "Bannon-ism" to rally the troops.
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They do not want Republicans to be able to flip the script and label Democrats as obstructionists, particularly on an issue like drug abuse and treatment.
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"If we had a plan that gave you the greatest health care ever in history, you wouldn't get one Democrat vote because they are obstructionists," Trump said.
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"If the Democrats would stop being obstructionists and come together, we could write up and agree to new immigration laws in less than one hour," Trump tweeted.
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A State Department spokesman, John Kirby, assailed that gunfire on Tuesday as the work of a "small group of political obstructionists" intent on subverting the political process.
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Judging from the crowd's response, this constant message from the White House that Democrats like Mr. Donnelly are obstructionists seemed to be working at the local level.
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In my time in the White House, I witnessed multiple instances when those who were meant to be working for the president were subtly yet effectively obstructionists.
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Senate Republicans have tried to soften up centrist Democrats in red states ahead of the midterm elections by portraying them as knee-jerk obstructionists blocking Trump's agenda.
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"If we had the greatest bill in the history of the world on health care, we wouldn't get one vote from the Democrats, because they're obstructionists," Trump said.
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"If we went and got the single greatest healthcare plan in the history of the world we would not get one Democrat vote because they're obstructionists," Trump said.
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"Let's not go down the road of being like the Tea Party, or being obstructionists, or being folks who are unwilling to engage or compromise," said freshman Rep.
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It's easy to believe him when he says that, unlike President Obama, he would enjoy endlessly negotiating with obstructionists and those on the other side of the aisle.
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Conway repeated Trump's wording that Democrats are being "obstructionists" and slammed them for being overly focused on the ongoing probes into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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Democrats are particularly wary of being seen as obstructionists with the midterms less than a year away and the House — and maybe even the Senate — on the line.
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Democrats, who have been dismissed as obstructionists by Republicans determined to repeal and replace the law without them, are sitting by quietly waiting for those efforts to fail.
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"I think we fall into the trap if we just simply say, sight unseen—we fall into the trap of being obstructionists," Tillis said on The Tyler Cralle Show.
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The fault is with Congress with a Republican majority that was obtained as obstructionists to Obama, and they can't shift gears to become positive legislators for the whole nation.
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Parscale says Trump and the campaign already have a four-part reelection message: economic success, Trump as a change agent, the Democrats are obstructionists, and America is more secure.
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If Republicans succeed in blocking Mr. Obama's appointment, it will make the party's senators more vulnerable to the charge that they're obstructionists who are part of the problem in Washington.
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And if they choose not to hold hearings at all, the Democrats can run against them as obstructionists who are refusing to do one of the Senate's most basic jobs.
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While they were at it, Republican voters chose to send Representative Tim Huelskamp into retirement after a six-year career as one of the leading Tea Party obstructionists in Washington.
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"Bipartisanship is a talking point to position the GOP to later criticize Democrats for being 'obstructionists'" when nothing productive comes out of that process, argued healthcare politics wonk Larry Jacobs.
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Democrats would be reluctant to give Mr. Trump a political win heading into the elections, but equally reluctant to offer him a legitimate opportunity to paint them as partisan obstructionists.
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They'll face some pressure not to be seen as obstructionists — 25 of them will be up for reelection in 2018, and 10 of those will be in states Trump won.
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This is what Obama did during health care reform, when he encouraged the "Gang of Six" negotiations for a bipartisan bill to make himself seem reasonable and Republicans look like obstructionists.
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" He blamed Democrats for obstructing the long promised Republican repeal and replace of the Democrats' signature healthcare law, calling them "obstructionists" and lamenting the lack of bipartisanship on "every single thing.
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And even as he called for unity, Trump repeatedly cast Democrats as obstructionists bent on open borders and unwilling to condemn voices within their party making extreme remarks on abortion. 2.
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A MAGA statement announcing Gorka's appointment said its mission was to "identify the obstructionists in (Washington) DC and to advocate the America First principles that catapulted Donald Trump to the White House".
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And Democrats will again play to type as mindless obstructionists and one-note alarmists — the same overheated opposition that, as the Times's Jeremy Peters reported last month, only hardens support for Trump.
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But Trump is operating under no such constraints, and if he wants to get his agenda moving again after the healthcare diversion, he should throw the obstructionists out of the driver's seat.
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Since tax reform is vital to energizing the economy, the House leadership and the president need to show the courage of their convictions, even if that means playing hardball with 30 obstructionists.
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Many of these Democrats are working to prove they are independent of their congressional leadership in Washington, even as Republicans seek to tie them to Democratic leaders while casting them as obstructionists.
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From that moment on, the Republican Party declared themselves to be obstructionists uniting around the sentiment that the first thing on the GOP agenda is to defeat the president of the United States.
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The ad is part of an effort by the RNC to cast Democrats as obstructionists — a line of attack often repeated by Trump — ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, a party official said.
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And if they play obstructionists too long, she adds, they could easily come off as the new "party of no," perceived as harming the nation through prolonged inaction, which might alienate potential midterm voters.
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But that is not stopping obstructionists within Justice Department ranks from continuing to thwart the will of President Trump, the will of Congress, and the will of the people to implement the First Step Act.
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As Mr. Holtz, the local Republican chairman put it, Democrats are increasingly viewed as obstructionists in the Senate, a sign that the Trump administration's messaging on the subject may be working at the local level.
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The public, photo-op portion of the affair began with Trump's usual bluster, blaming Democrats as "obstructionists" (irony!) and the typical chest-puffing of accomplishments before he turned it over to the cabinet to introduce themselves.
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Trump, angered by the fact no Democrats are working with him on repeal, has slammed the party as "obstructionists," even going so far as to say that he would behave differently if he were a senator.
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Turnbull is now seen as likely to opt for a rare double dissolution election, which sees both houses of parliament face voters, arguing that it will clear the Senate of obstructionists and allow long-stalled economic reforms.
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White House officials said Trump will be submitting names to lead HHS and ONDCP soon but pointed to "obstructionists" in the Senate for slowing down confirmation of lower level agency appointees who could help implement the action.
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AND I THINK WHAT WE'RE – OUR GOAL IS TO BRING PEOPLE, REACH ACROSS THE AISLE, THERE HAS BEEN NO PENALTY IN THE BALLOT BOX FOR OBSTRUCTIONISTS, AND THERE'S BEEN NO REWARD FOR PROBLEM SOLVERS FOR PEOPLE CROSSING THE AISLE.
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Yet he is being derailed at every angle by obstructionists who see no other role in their daily life than to be a nuisance to the rule of law in our country for the sake of scoring political power.
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While some Democrats might worry about how this would "look" to the public, they should remember that it didn't look good for Republicans to be obstructionists and they now have control of the White House, Congress, and 34 state legislative bodies.
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I WOULD LIKE NAMES OF PEOPLE YOU THINK ARE OBSTRUCTIONISTS THROUGH THE TURN BECAUSE I HAVE THIS BOARD OF DIRECTORS IN MY HAND, SIR, AND THIS IS A LIST OF PEOPLE THAT I WOULD BE VERY PROUD TO WORK WITH.
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He blasted them as obstructionists on Twitter, and he referenced the recent killing of a California police officer, allegedly by a suspect who is in the country illegally, as a reason to bolster his push for more border wall funds.
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House passage alone of H.R.1 did not necessarily put them much closer to tighter ethics rules or less corporate money in politics; it mostly meant creating the first really big bludgeon that Democrats could use to attack Republicans as obstructionists.
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Other senators who are traveling their home states are providing mixed messages such as when Senator Thom Tillis, Republican of North Carolina, used a local media appearance on Tuesday to caution his colleagues against falling into a trap of being labeled obstructionists.
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Democrats — hoping to eke out wins in states where Trump triumphed in 2900—have focused on their ability to work with the administration on the border, even as the president and their GOP opponents try to paint them as obstructionists on immigration.
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Journalists remained a target of Mr. Trump on Monday — standing beside Mr. Putin, he lumped in "the media" with Democrats and "partisan critics" as obstructionists — but the most revealing exchanges at the summit meeting were prompted by questions from the American news media.
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"Even if we get 100% Republican votes in the Senate, we need 10 Democrat votes to get a much needed Immigration Bill - & the Dems are Obstructionists who won't give votes for political reasons & because they don't care about Crime coming from Border!" he said.
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In addition to decades of apparent bureaucratic slow-walking by Aphis and the State of Montana, the obstructionists got help last year when vandals broke into the Park Service quarantine facility and released scores of bison that were due to go to Fort Peck.
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By nominating a centrist with a record of bipartisan support—someone like Sri Srinivasan, confirmed by a 97-0 vote to the federal appeals court for the District of Columbia in 2013—Mr Obama could embarrass Republicans by forcing them into the role of hyper-politicised obstructionists.
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"For the sake of our Supreme Court, for the sake of our country, for the sake of our Constitution, we will overcome the obstructionists and the United States Senate will confirm Judge Neil Gorsuch one way or the other," Pence said at a speech in Columbus, Ohio.
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Trump, who has branded Democrats as obstructionists, on Wednesday embraced a proposal from Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and his counterpart in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, for a three-month extension of the U.S. debt ceiling, rejecting a Republican plan for a longer extension.
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President Donald Trump is homing in on his 2018 pitch to red-state voters: It's a mix of his dark rhetoric on immigration with some conspiracy theories and the occasional reminiscing about his unexpected presidential win — all whipped up with attacks on Democrats as obstructionists and praise for Republicans he's endorsed.
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"Instead of criticizing a government official who is actually doing the job she was nominated, confirmed & sworn to do and enforcing the laws passed by Congress, the obstructionists in Congress should get to work to secure our borders, end legal loopholes & protect American lives," he said in a tweeted statement.
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" Department of Homeland Security spokesman Tyler Houlton said in a tweet that "obstructionists in Congress should get to work to secure our borders, end legal loopholes & protect American lives" instead of "criticizing a government official who is actually doing the job she was nominated, confirmed & sworn to do and enforcing the laws passed by Congress.
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In early 2017, at a lunch for the incoming freshman class at the Capitol, he complained to table mates about how tough it was to be a backbencher and railed, in four-letter fashion, against the House Freedom Caucus — now his allies — for being "a bunch of obstructionists," according to a person sitting nearby.
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If Bernie would commit 50 percent of his fund-raising millions and his fund-raising staff to supporting candidates for the Senate and the House who share his values, there is a real chance that, whether or not he becomes the nominee, the country will be able to move forward by replacing some of the congressional obstructionists.
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" On the Democrats: "The promise of a safe, reliable, and modern infrastructure plan hasn't been kept, but were going to keep it... that's why I'm calling on all Democrats — who have been real obstructionists, they obstruct everything... we can't even get one Democratic vote... I don't think, honestly, if I were in that party, i would be doing it that way.
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Earlier, her smile and warm exchange with President Obama at the funeral set Twitter on fire, and two days later the first lady was sending "healing thoughts of strength" to former President George H.W. Bush, who was hospitalized Monday -- even as her husband was tweeting about building the wall on the US-Mexico border and railing against "obstructionists" in Congress.
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Democratic congressional leaders on Saturday slammed President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE for calling Democrats "obstructionists" on immigration reform and accused the president of attempting to "change the subject" away from a national conversation on health care.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Top aide Jeff Weaver lays out Sanders's path to victory MORE (I-Vt.) is pushing back on President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's claim that Democrats have been obstructionists on tax reform, saying on Sunday that Democrats have been shut out of the process.
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