Another is the failure of Democrats to excite us with a positive alternative vision.
The announcement came hours after senior US Democrats called for Anthony Weiner to resign.
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Many things the Democrats are telling us do not agree with what is actually written in the proposed bill.
Trade unionists and development activists, as well as many Democrats in the US, favour including such standards in any new trade pact.
Sunday saw two senior US Democrats call for stricter gun control.
Last week, the Post reported that the Democrats justify maintaining US support for the PA by arguing that they are simply doing the bidding of the Israeli government.
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The Democrats will tell us anything they think will justify what they really want, which is explosive taxes, spending, and deficits to keep down the short term political costs of all that spending.
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Senior US Democrats are demanding to know what Mr Bush knew about the allegation, and who pressed for it to be included in the State of the Union address, despite the doubts of US intelligence.
The Hungarian-American financier - who sponsors liberal democracy in developing countries and is close to the Democrats in the US - has regularly commented on government policy responses to the global financial crisis since it erupted in 2008.
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Polls have shown a rapid rise in support for same-sex marriage in the US, and President Barack Obama and most US Senate Democrats now back same-sex marriage.
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Democrats and Republicans in the US Congress have agreed a compromise spending bill to avoid a government shutdown.
New York State Senator Malcolm Smith, leader of the Senate Democrats in New York joined us by phone from his office in Albany.
The political posturing from both Democrats and Republicans has gotten us nowhere, and each party has demonstrated a lack of vision and pragmatism.
We meet at a moment when all of us -- Democrats and Republicans, leaders at the national and the state levels -- face some very big challenges.
These are serious times, and what's required by all of us -- Democrats and Republicans -- is to do what's right for our country, even if it's not always what's best for our politics.
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Indeed, history may tell us that the Democrats' slide in this cycle began with the fateful decision to pursue a health-care overhaul in 2009 rather than to invest political capital on more steps to stimulate the economy.
That mechanism was created back in 2011 at the time of the US debt ceiling crisis as an outcome so terrible that it would force Republicans and Democrats to find a compromise that starts reducing the US Federal deficit.
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But on this issue of basic decency, where there remains so much agreement between us, Republicans and Democrats ought to leave politics at the water's edge.
All of us - Republicans, Democrats, independents and others alike - can only hope that the same will be said of our new Commander-in-Chief, Barack Obama, as well.
Their destruction is undermining U.S. foreign policy, as the Democrats -- and all of us -- will discover to our detriment when the loyal opposition again gains the Oval Office.
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People out there watching us, they see us nothing more than Democrats and Republicans up here fighting, fighting only to win a few political points, not to get the problem solved.
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All the politicians, including Churchill and Roosevelt, told us these were fine liberating democrats.
And I remember as a governor, when this idea was floated by Tommy Thompson, the governors -- Republican and Democrats -- said, please let us do that.
And let us show them that Republicans and Democrats can compete for votes and cooperate for results at the same time.
"The campus Republicans and Democrats should talk about issues that pertain to us, like education, budget cuts and tax issues, " said student Monique Maravilla.
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