Nothing about the banks in question being big, or about the United States being a large country, change the fact that the other options are bad. Isaac offers this alternative prescription
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Great power conflict, by contrast, merely ensure than any actual or would-be dictator or revolutionary can always count on the support of one or the other external players.
The seal sounds is cool, too.
I have mixed feelings about reporting on these kind of findings. On the one hand, I don't actually think that elected officials' future has very much to do with the public's opinion, such as it is, on this kind of question. I think, for example, that Obama's re-election prospects will be based much more on whether or not living standards are increasing in 2012 than on whether or not the policies he pursued in 2009 matched up with at-the-time public opinion. So the politically smart thing to do is more-or-less ignore year-one opinion and just do things that you think will work out in the medium-term (of course the wise and moral thing to do is to also think about the long term) irregardless of the polls. But on the other hand, there's lots of reason to believe that people's beliefs about short-term public opinion do influence how they act so it's important to spread the information around when it points in the right direction.
Editor's note: Grammarians prefer not to use irregardless, as it is a made-up word with the same meaning as regardless.
Mitch McConnel warns that passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, permitting workers to form unions through a majority sign-up process rather than an election rigged by employers, would "Europeanize America[.]"...
Beyond that, though, there's some nice places in Europe.
Noone Could Have Predicted...
Which I think mostly goes to show that the vote counts for bills in congress ultimately has very little to do with whether or not there's a general spirit of comity in town.
I think this comment from tsg sums it up best:
"Noone" is atrocious, even for Yglesias. Everyone makes mistakes, but "noone" featured so prominently shows outright contempt for the English language. Totally unacceptable.
Additional consideration that are important is that ideally the stations will be close enough together to create not just pockets of density but whole corridors of density, even if the corridors are surrounded by pretty traditional suburbs.
For example, defense contractors' plans to get a bailout for the financially and strategically absurd F-22 Raptor is gaining steam on the Hill.
To be maximally effective, I think the United States need to commit itself publicly to this goal as well as raising it privately.
To me, one of the most frustrating recurring notions that comes up when talking about transportation policy is the idea that bad policies that subsidize auto commuting over all alternatives is a handy way of helping out the poor.
