He lost badly but every Democrat does.

If you are a Republican, you can take a Democrat to lunch, or if you're a Democrat, think of it as taking a Republican to lunch.

But then the company passes through this dark stage to this Democrat.

He lost everything. The most powerful Democrat in the country, he lost everything.

A democrat is a free citizen who yields to the will of the majority.

The writer, Democrat of Mississippi, is the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee.

The Los Angeles Democrat asserted that the claims were being pedaled by ultra right wing pundits and websites.

The Boston Globe reports the Massachusetts Democrat spoke about her future during a town hall in western Massachusetts Saturday.

This recently redrawn suburban Pittsburg district pits Democrat Rep. Conor Lamb who won his seat in another district in a special election last spring.

And I said, There's one thing that we have in common in this room, all of us together, whether Republican or Democrat, or whoever.

Pelosi added that as a Democrat she was concerned about potential Kavanaugh rulings against the Affordable Care Act or Roe v. Wade, as he is considered to be a conservative justice.

Trade liberalization has been stalled for too long. Since the end of World War II, American presidents, Democrat and Republican alike, have promoted free trade as a key pillar of growth.

If I were a Democrat, I would leave Palin to the mercies of the investigating bloggers. The election is too important to all of us to begin and end with her.

But I should say that my background my father was, you know, raised to be an Episcopalian and Republican, but after one year of college, he became an atheist and a Democrat.

Between 2014 and 2015, Centcom created an overly insular process for producing intelligence assessments on ISIL and Iraqi Security Forces, Representative Adam B. Schiff, the committee's top Democrat, said in a statement.

True, Yasser Arafat was not a model democrat, but his charisma and political acumen were crucial for holding all the Palestinian factions together. Now, not even Fatah, Arafat s own party, can claim to be a coherent organization.

The Putin Center can be displaced. Recall that Russia s pro Western liberals, ascendant a decade ago, have been relegated to the ideological fringe, with the very word democrat (let alone pro West ) now a term of abuse.

For me, the choice is simple and not only because I am, by temperament and history, a Democrat. The long and intense political campaign has revealed huge differences in the two candidates positions, style, and personal qualities.

Trump is not just trying to run against a Democrat for the presidency he is running against his own party s establishment as well. His supporters are disgusted with the compromises made in Washington between leading Republicans and Democrats.

Germany s soccer revolution was mirrored in the economy. Beginning in 2003, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, a Social Democrat, launched a series of reforms aimed at increasing labor market flexibility and, more generally, laying the foundations for long term prosperity.

In a paper issued in January 2015, and again in a major speech in May, Sander Levin, the ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, applied these principles to all of the outstanding issues regarding the TPP.

It doesn't mean that if you are a Republican that I'm trying to convince you to be a Democrat. We need Republicans as well. This used to be a bipartisan issue, and I know that in this group it really is. Become politically active.

And, while Russian leaders may start out as reformers, they do not often remain so. Boris Yeltsin began the 1990 s as a courageous democrat, only to end up a corrupt, bibulous buffoon, while Putin initially vowed to bring law and order to the post Yeltsin chaos.

Iran will continue to enrich uranium regardless of whether a Republican or a Democrat is America s president. At the same time, the United States will oppose any Iranian nuclear program even a civilian program because this will contribute to the stability of the regime in Tehran.

But if he were here he might remind us, as he does in the wrap up to his fine autobiography, that on this day Bill Clinton began a journey a journey that saw him go on to become the first Democrat president elected to two consecutive terms in decades.

To be sure, the Social Democrat Green coalition, with the support of only 38 of MPs, was bound to be an uncertain exercise. But it could have worked, had the government not quickly veered sharply to the left, forging budget and other agreements with the ex Communist Left party.

The group of core senators pushing for financial reform is already strong, including Sherrod Brown, Jeff Merkley, Carl Levin, and Jack Reed. And now Elizabeth Warren is working hard with her Senate colleagues Democrat and Republican to bring responsible, well informed pressure to bear on regulators and prosecutors.

Both candidates have placed great importance on global warming. Republican John McCain believes that it presents a test of foresight, of political courage, and of the unselfish concern that one generation owes to the next, while Democrat Barack Obama calls it one of the greatest moral challenges of our generation.

Yet many have. Indeed, since the referendum, many have acted as if Tsipras were the last eurozone democrat, as if he had faced a totalitarian clique (as described by the far right French politician Marine Le Pen) against which he valiantly stood firm (in the words of far left politician Jean Luc Mélenchon).

Not surprisingly, Chileans have kept the ruling Christian Democrat Socialist coalition (the Concertación ) in power for four consecutive terms since 1990, when democracy was restored after 17 years of General Augusto Pinochet s repressive military rule. On December 13, however, voters in Chile s presidential election are likely to make the Concertación candidate sweat.

In his astonishingly swift rise, he was virtually alone a Democrat, but not a creature of the Democratic Party, a politician of progressive instincts, but not an ideologue. His tendency toward solitude, however, left him disinclined to build new ties and allies in Washington, leaning instead on his family and close friends from Chicago.

In 1974, the touted Conservative Liberal Democrat coalition never materialized, as the Liberal Democrats were wary of hitching their fortunes to an unpopular and discredited politician. The result was a minority government that struggled for support and legitimacy, and in the end offered only policies that provided no real answer to the country s underlying problems.

SANTIAGO Forty years ago, the Brazilian economist Edmar Bacha named his country Belindia a combination of prosperous and modern Belgium and poor and backward India. In last Sunday s presidential election, according to many observers, the Indian part of Brazil voted for the incumbent, President Dilma Rousseff, and the Belgian part voted for the social democrat Aécio Neves.

If India s founding fathers, like the passionate democrat Jawaharlal Nehru, had not been cremated, they would be turning over in their graves. With a general election to be held by the end of May, voters should insist that those who seek to represent them in Parliament go there to debate and deliberate, not to disrupt and destroy.

Since 2005, the US Congress has repeatedly flirted with legislation aimed at defending hard pressed American workers from the presumed threat of a cheap Chinese currency. Bipartisan support for such a measure surfaced when Senators Charles Schumer (a liberal Democrat from New York) and Lindsey Graham (a conservative Republican from South Carolina) introduced the first Chinese currency bill.

The Concertación is running Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei, the son of a former president who was president himself from 1994 until 2000. His opponent is Sebastián Piñera, a tycoon, former senator, and presidential runner up in 2006 who represents the main opposition forces Piñera s moderately conservative Renovación Nacional (RN) and the more rightist Union Democrata Independiente (UDI).

Now if you look at '96, Bill Clinton the last Democrat to actually win how he did in '96, you see real big differences in this part of the country right here, the kind of Appalachians, Ozarks, highlands region, as I call it 20 or 30 point swings from how Bill Clinton did in '96 to how Obama did in 2008.

Military rule has cleared the streets, locked down the political system, and ushered in a long transition to some new, as yet undefined arrangement. While the anti coup forces support a return to electoral democracy, the pro coup coalition, led by the Democrat Party, is increasingly realigning itself against the military, in the hope of securing power in whatever post coup system emerges.

With 47 million voters and turnout at 75 , Thailand s latest election results pose a decisive challenge to the country s long established regime. The Pheu Thai party, led by Yingluck Shinawatra, the youngest sister of exiled fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, secured a resounding triumph, winning 265 seats in the 500 member assembly, while the ruling Democrat Party mustered just 159.

Until the 1960 s, future neo conservatives shared the Democratic Party s vehement anti communism, acceptance of the Civil Rights Movement, and support for President Franklin Roosevelt s New Deal welfare state policies. Tellingly, the influential neo conservative Richard Perle said in 2003 that he was still a registered Democrat, out of nostalgia for Henry Scoop Jackson, the powerful former Senator who embodied these commitments.

Their assumption is that Republicans will back free trade and oppose protectionism. This time around, they have not heard much from the President elect, who is a Democrat, on trade with Asia, and what they have heard about his position on the North American Free Trade Agreement an alleged desire to rewrite that trade pact unilaterally does not inspire confidence.

STANFORD Following the conclusion of the Trans Pacific Partnership by 12 Pacific Rim countries, debates about the costs and benefits of trade liberalization are intensifying. The early leaders in the United States presidential campaign, both the Republican Donald Trump and the Democrat Hillary Clinton, have expressed opposition to the TPP, though as Secretary of State, Clinton called it the the gold standard of trade deals.

This view clearly influences Republican office holders, who fear the partisan beast that mans their campaigns phone banks and holds the purse strings. Moreover, ever since Clinton s election in 1992, those at the head of the Republican Party have believed that creating gridlock whenever a Democrat is in the White House, and thus demonstrating the government s incapacity to act, is their best path to electoral success.

Much will depend on the outcome of TV debates between the leaders, which are being held for the first time in a British election campaign, and which have thus far contributed mightily to the Liberal Democrat surge. Each leader has been carefully groomed to avoid the sort of gaffes that could cost his party the election, and thus far, not one has shot himself in the foot.

But in today s world, only national governments are large enough to be able to do so with any assurance that the pension assets will actually be there when workers retire. I am enough of a social democrat to believe that if there is an economic service or benefit that citizens value extremely highly and that only the government can provide, then the government should provide it.