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They called it the sexual privacy issue - guys and girls in a boat together. There was going to be some sort of awkward moment about restroom breaks. It's crazy. We're all adults, and it's a natural thing. It's not something that's relevant and shouldn't be something that stops women from getting out there to compete...
...before climate change was a known threat. Instead, they see federal regulations as a protective stopgap measure until Congress can pass national carbon cap-and-trade legislation specifically tailored to global warming. "It's not going to be easy, but it can be done," says Doniger. Since the only thing that coal-industry executives and other fossil-fuel peddlers fear more than a carbon cap is EPA regulation, he might just be right...
...Republican senator vividly observed, if you gave someone a million dollars every day since the birth of Christ, you wouldn’t reach a trillion dollars until sometime after the year 2700. A stimulus package priced somewhere between $800 billion and $1 trillion was not an easy thing to grasp. By its nature, it was the biggest target that any simple-minded or cynical politician ever had to shoot at in the entire annals of American domestic spending...
...some respects, President Obama has only himself to blame for the current controversy. As a presidential candidate, the then Senator himself pointed a spotlight on the legislation he co-sponsored when he told the Planned Parenthood Action Fund in 2007 that "the first thing I'd do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That's the first thing...
...other thing," Gibbs said as the room went quiet. "When the President said 'I screwed up' last night, that officially ended our experiment with sipping from the waters of the Potomac," he continued, referring to the Obama team's determination not to be sucked into old Washington ways. "I, for one, don't want to look back four years from now and think, We should have done this differently." (See pictures of and read about President Obama's White House staff...