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...Environmental groups have been largely disappointed with Democratic efforts to fulfill their campaign promises to increase the use of renewable energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and they always knew getting a favorable bill out of the Senate - which Democrats control by just a single vote - would be tough. But they hoped that a lot could be fixed in conference with the House, which Democrats control by a much larger majority. But to the environmentalists' dismay, when House chairmen floated their bill last week, it came out even weaker than the Senate version - with more lax fuel efficiency standards...
...played a short-order cook in a movie called Frankie and Johnny. If I had to do anything it would be a short-order cook. The one thing I would never do is being a moving man because I did it and moving furniture from house to house is tough stuff. That I would never...
Like CNBC, HGTV is a creature of a certain economic heyday (the early aughts housing boom, as opposed to the late-'90s NASDAQ bubble) that has had to adjust to tough times, in this case by offering escapism that turns head-on into the very thing people want to escape from. (Just as, after 9/11, terrorism became all the rage in pop culture...
...give specifics, as Bill Bradley did when he proposed universal care in 1999, your opponents and the press will tear your proposal to shreds. That's because there is no such thing as a perfect policy idea; even great ones, like Social Security, have obvious flaws, and it's tough to deal with complexity on the stump. There's another problem: governing is vastly different from campaigning. Any big new program has to be negotiated with the Congress. There's no guarantee a President won't change his priorities or be forced by events into a whole...
...problem for the Democratic Party, spiritual home of the teachers' unions. But it's about time that teachers were treated like professionals rather than assembly-line workers. Professionals work a full year, and they are paid-and hired and fired-according to their skills and their willingness to do tough jobs rather than seniority. There is a simple test of credibility on education for Democrats. You must be willing to say to the unions, We're with you when it comes to building a floor-the highest possible minimum-wage standard for teachers-but we don't want you building...