Sentence examples for obstructionist for from inspiring English sources

And in an echo of the 1917 and 1975 rules changes, when the three-fifths threshold was seen as intolerably obstructionist for nominations, it was lowered to a simple majority in 2013.

The race had been closely watched by both parties, with White House officials calling the senator an obstructionist for opposing the president on the war in Iraq, tax cuts and judicial nominees.

By "tethering" himself to "political realities," however, the reliably reactionary Post means offering the Republicans a suicide pact rather than, as previously, yanking at an imaginary Republican leash, shouting "heel, boy, raise taxes!" and then criticizing the GOP as obstructionist for noncompliance.

They may try to blame Democratic "obstructionists" for why they could not do more.

The small band of Republicans called themselves "constructive obstructionists" for their vigorous fights against the dominant Democrats.

The Commerce Department, NOAA's parent agency, blamed "Senate obstructionists" for the languishing process in a statement provided to The Washington Post.

Democrats said they intended to make the case to rural Americans that the Republicans had abandoned them, and they promised to paint Republicans as obstructionists for routinely filibustering consensus bills.

The tax credit extension is one of five items on Mr. Obama's so-called to-do list for Congress, an election-year effort to either pressure lawmakers to pass some of his favorite ideas or cast them as obstructionists for refusing to do so.

Speaking before a convention of New Hampshire Democrats on Saturday, O'Malley blasted "Republican obstructionists" for their failure to enact measures to help the economy.

But where your argument veers from the absurd (rewarding the obstructionists for obstruction because you're mad at the obstruction) into the imaginary is when you depict a President Mitt as "moving to the moderate he always has been" and showing "far more compassion than people think".

He also blamed "obstructionist Democrats" for standing in the way of funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall and suggested a government shutdown might be needed to force their hand.