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...Listening to other staff members gossip on Monday afternoon, Buse picked up his first hint of trouble. Both McConnell and Texan Phil Gramm, another reform foe, were going to vote with Wellstone. Why would Gramm and McConnell vote with a liberal? Suddenly Buse understood: Wellstone's amendment was a poison pill, with the potential to kill the whole measure. He rushed to warn McCain...
...Hagel bill into its three parts and voting on each separately, the pro-McCain forces went two for three. Senators OK'd the full-disclosure requirements (which is the one part of campaign finance reform acceptable to hard-line opponents like Mitch McConnell and is not deemed a poison pill by McCain) and voted down the first two, leading supporters of the McCain-Feingold bill to cautiously claim a victory...
...iatrophobia: ... doctors ichthyophobia: ... fish illyngophobia: ... vertigo insectophobia: ... insects iophobia: ... poison isolophobia: ... solitude ithyphallophobia: ... erection...
...tachophobia: ... speed taphephobia: ... being buried alive tapinophobia: ... being contagious taurophobia: ... bulls technophobia: ... technology teleophobia: ... definite plans testophobia: ... taking tests thalassophobia: ... the sea thanatophobia: ... death or dying theatrophobia: ... theaters thermophobia: ... heat tocophobia: ... childbirth tonitrophobia: ... thunder toxiphobia: ... poison traumatophobia: ... injury tremophobia: ... trembling triskaidekaphobia: ... the number 13 trypanophobia: ... injections...
...problem is that while everybody likes the idea of a clean Earth, Americans aren't much for self-sacrifice. We drive SUVs and eschew public transportation, but can't bear high prices at the pump - and the "gas consumption tax" is political poison, deadlier than any arsenic. We own multiple TVs, surf the Internet, and run the air-conditioning while we're at work so the house is cool when we get home, but even in California, the most environmentally progressive state we've got, the mere mention of higher electricity bills as a demand-reducing measure sends shivers down...