Criticized

Criticized from the left for focusing on tax cuts and including cuts in the stimulus.

Matthew Yglesias » Nationalization on the Sly 2009

Criticized by government watchdogs who say they are often favors for lobbyists who donate campaign contributions, earmarks have slowed in recent years.

With an eye toward the election, Boehner calls for major changes in the House Paul Kane 2010

Criticized at home for caving in to Chinese pressure, Prime Minister Naoto Kan's government responded by issuing its own demand for compensation and calling on Beijing to decide whether it wanted to repair frayed ties.

Japan, China Tensions Deepen, Test Diplomatic Resolve AP 2010

Criticized by most conservatives as an example of government intrusion into the marketplace, the mandate originated as a conservative idea.

News analysis: Comparing Obama and Romney health laws 2011

Criticized at home for caving in to Chinese pressure, Prime Minister Naoto Kan's government responded by issuing its own demand for compensation and calling on Beijing to decide whether it wanted to repair frayed ties.

Japan, China Tensions Deepen, Test Diplomatic Resolve AP 2010

Criticized for satirizing a deadly serious, raging war in Europe on release in 1942, Lubitsch's inspired, often side-splitting farce doubled as a tribute both to the Polish resistance and, quite ingeniously, to the mighty art of play-acting.

John Farr: Laughing in Style: That Special 'Lubitsch Touch' John Farr 2011

Criticized as a team that barely deserved to make the playoffs, Arizona did not have numbers in its favor headed into Charlotte.

Upstart Cards advance after Panthers' 'major malfunction' 2009

Criticized over illegal immigrants getting health care, the president said, "It is very important that we have compassion as part of our national character."

Obama Aims to Reconnect With 'Town Hall' Meetings Jonathan Weisman 2010

Criticized for not contributing enough and also for the supposedly small amount she did contribute guest judge Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, for example hated her line that described "running rhymes through my head in my canopy bed" to Jackie's embarrassing rap about being white, Ojeda left the competition in tears and doubt.

Platinum Hit's Amber Ojeda: I Have a Personality, I Swear to God 2011

As a former captain and supervisory pilot for American Airlines with around 23,000 hours of flying time, I completely disagree with Loretta Alkalay, "a former top lawyer" for the Federal Aviation Administration's Eastern region, when she says that, "it was clearly inappropriate for two jetliners to land without clearance" at Reagan National Airport after the lone air-traffic controller on duty fell asleep " Decisions by Pilots to Land Criticized ," U.S. News, March 28.

Getting Them Back Down to Earth 2011