Democrats' search and destroy strategy is disgraceful and this process has been a total sham and effort to delay, obstruct, and resist.
Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas — who as president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — called out the president for a "farce and a sham — an effort to set up a police state in the guise of liberty". Now, Congress may add one more anti-lynching attempt to its list of shortcomings.
On the foreign-policy front, he may address the ongoing fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, the effort to eradicate Ebola in West Africa, and the recent détente with Cuba, as well as cybersecurity, climate change, and the Keystone XL pipeline.
President Truman's civil rights program "is a farce and a sham--an effort to set up a police state in the guise of liberty.
Since President Barack Obama announced the new task force in January to investigate the mortgage and banking industries following the 2008 crash, some liberal activists have called the effort a "sham".
Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center for Justice, called the commission a "sham and distraction" in an effort to try and find proof of the president's "absurd" voter fraud claim.
Moreno-Ocampo dismissed those efforts as "sham trials".
But he also warned that if Mr. Bush sought to peel off some conservative Democrats to enact conservative legislation, unions would fight such efforts as sham bipartisanship.
Continuing to conduct airport security in this manner only promotes a sense that the effort is a sham.
On the left, the A.F.L.-C.I.O., the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, and research groups like the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities denounced the effort as a sham, disguised as the Bowles-Simpson commission report but tilted to the right.
