Alas, this diversity strategy, combined with old-fashioned pay-to-play politics, has enveloped the state in scandal.
So my message to Congress is: Now is not the time to play politics.
Again, I think that the reason that charge is made is only to play politics.
He may want to pose and play politics but we care about these things.
Tell them not to play politics again by linking this debate to unrelated issues.
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With so many people struggling to get by, now is not the time to play politics.
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Western economies all have a McGuffin that you have to believe in to play politics today.
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In his weekly radio address Saturday, President Obama warned Republicans not to play politics with Sotomayor's nomination.
We cannot play politics at a time when the American people are looking for us to solve problems.
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Mr Eves's opponents pledged primly they would not play politics over the blackout.
It seems at the end of a long year, around the holiday season, a pretty awful thing to play politics about.
Online campaign disclosure databases make pay-for-play politics far more difficult to obfuscate.
Unions have routinely used a large part of membership dues to play politics and have done so without the permission of individual members.
Maybe opportunistic senators and journalists will not play politics and one day abandon the very policies that they once urged their president to adopt.
Indeed, both candidates and their campaigns appear all too content to play politics with the issue of immigration rather than engage in any sort of serious debate.
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The simple answer is that politicians benefit from the current mess, using their power over tax laws to raise campaign cash, reward friends, punish enemies, and play politics.
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But even the offset could not overcome the votes of the Republican Senators who would so willingly play politics to the profound detriment of those to whom we owe the most.
And I think the American people want us not to play politics with this important issue but instead to get something done, and that's the case that the President will push this week.
"The suggestion that anybody in my team, whether the secretary of state, our U.N. ambassador, anybody on my team would play politics or mislead when we've lost four of our own, governor, is offensive, " Mr. Obama said.
And the decision that the President made in January, because Republicans decided to play politics with this and force a decision before proper review could be conducted, was made without prejudice on the merits of the project.
Councillor Matthew Riddle, deputy leader of the Conservative group in South Gloucestershire said it was "extraordinarily petty and disrespectful" that councillors with the other two parties would play politics and prevent the Union flag being flown at half-mast.
As long as the Obama administration continues to play politics with entitlements, as opposed to putting forward unpopular but easy to implement solutions, the system will go broke sooner rather than later and there will be lots of other unpleasant side effects.
Senator LINDSEY GRAHAM (Republican, South Carolina): I believe that the votes to withdraw politically in Iraq have diminished, and that the testimony involving people like myself and those on the fence are going to be less likely to play politics with troop withdrawals.
And he added that one of the greatest threats to the service came from those who sought to "play politics" with the police - an attack on opposition politicians who questioned the actions of the police in the wake of London's May Day violence.
It was simply because the Republicans decided to play politics with a completely unrelated issue, in terms of the extension of the payroll tax cut, to try to I guess curry favor with some political constituency or the other when there was no way to, in accordance with tradition and regulation, to adequately and properly review a pipeline that would cross an international border.
Without being naive about the immediate prospects for change, which I still think is at least 4-5 years away, I think that we should basically let internal Russian politics play out precisely because those politics seem to be heading in a direction that is ever-more unfavorable for the authorities.
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Burris, former attorney general for Illinois, is not accused of engaging in "pay-to-play" politics with Blagojevich.
"I reject and denounce 'pay to play' politics and have no involvement whatsoever in any wrongdoing, " he said.
Really, calling for the entire newsroom to walk out over a bit of corporate power play and politics.
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