Mitchell, the union once again has clothed itself in the mantle of the obstructionist.
Confronted by obstructionist Republicans in Congress, he did well to get anything through at all.
At that point, House Republicans just might look obstructionist if they fail to go along.
Far better to allow the United States to be obstructionist than to have it walk out, he says.
Obviously, the obstructionist and delaying tactics used by the former KGB veterans in Moscow this week must not stand.
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Republicans need to test his seriousness in the sunlight where voters can better see who is the real obstructionist.
Arizona views the Holbrook Basin a as a potential economic growth engine and is not looking to be obstructionist.
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Many unionists seem ready for a deal with nationalists, and are growing tired of the obstructionist antics of their leaders.
Gowdy said he was committed to certain principles and was representing the voters who elected him, not being an obstructionist.
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Is there any concern that the Chinese are becoming obstructionist in a kind of retaliation on other related -- on unrelated issues?
Throughout the trip, both sides insisted that Barak's election signaled a departure from the obstructionist policies of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
And you dare bring up simpson-bowles, the commission that 1st, according to the Republican SImpson, republicans blocked the forming of the commission as an obstructionist tactic.
And some Democrats are concerned that passing bipartisan bills now will make it harder for the president to run against an obstructionist Republican House of Representatives.
Democrats today accused the Republicans of being obstructionist and not willing to negotiate one part of an airline security bill, whether airport screeners should be federal employees.
Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who Republicans have called an "obstructionist" in the stimulus debate, said he would accept the House GOP plan -- with some caveats.
The most inconvenient truth of all is that these activists' obstructionist lawsuits prevent the marketing of products that offer palpable, demonstrated benefits to the environment and to the welfare of farmers.
He can also point to an increasingly obstructionist Congress.
His consistent castigation of Israel as obstructionist and defiant has led some surveys to claim that over the past year US popular support for Israel has dropped from 77 to 58 percent.
In her book, the now-retired Snowe writes about her 34 years on Capitol Hill that she says went from a place where parties worked to forge compromise to today's obstructionist politics and partisanship.
When it became time to renew the Patriot Act, the Center for Security Policy played an integral part in helping the administration and responsible lawmakers overcome obstructionist efforts from a variety of sources.
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Arguably, this is what both sides want to happen because Republicans can point fingers at Democrats for raising taxes and Democrats can point fingers at Republicans for being obstructionist for the sake of wealthy taxpayers.
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They question whether the president truly wants an agreement on fiscal issues, or if he merely seeks to depict Republicans as obstructionist while continuing to push his campaign themes of equal opportunity and shared burden from last year's election.
Put a name and a face to the nasty, hyperpartisan, obstructionist image they would like to convey--much like the Clinton strategists did with their devastatingly effective "Dole-Gingrich" ad campaign in 1996 (which arguably won the election before it started).
"This is just all part of a continuing plan, and whether it's suppressing the vote or suppressing the economy -- this obstructionist regime that we see that continues to block because they think they would rather see President Obama fail than the nation succeed, " Larson said.
Just as every newsworthy weather event these days is blamed on global warming, every negative economic report between now and the 2014 midterm elections will be blamed on obstructionist Republicans, their ill-advised sequester, and their determination to ruin an otherwise recovering economy just to make Obama look bad.
So if Congress can't change their obstructionist ways, they can embrace them - House of Representatives Majority Leader Eric Cantor could do a guest spot on the Big Bang Theory, playing a lawmaker trying to shut down funding for scientific research, while his Democratic counterpart, Nancy Pelosi, could say why her party's caucus is secretly trying to destroy the world, for one of David Letterman's top 10 lists.
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