However mad they may be at him, they don't want President Romney-Pawlenty-God-forbid-Palin.Īnyone else do the Saturday Times puzzle? I found it pretty easy last Saturday except for the lower-right-hand corner - the southeast, as we puzzlers say - where I'm still not done. If the House Democrats had been seen as submarining it, deal Obama a huge defeat in the process (at the hands of his own party), it would have spawned several political disasters, most notably for the president's reelection prospects.
Nearly 70% of Americans backed this deal. Listen how to say Alea Iacta Est correctly (Latin phrase) with Julien, 'how do you pronounce' free pronunciation audio/video tutorials.What does Alea Iacta E. For now, the liberal Democrats, unhappy though they may be, have done the right thing. I'll have to cogitate for a day or two on the Big Lessons of this whole mess. And everyone's taxes would have gone up for two weeks, but of course they would have just blamed that on the Democrats, and probably won that argument. They might for example have yanked the unemployment benefits down from 13 months to six or whatever.
Some House liberals were still hoping for a way to tinker with the estate tax numbers, but any changes there would have given Republicans the excuse they needed to vote the deal down, wait until January when they had a solid House majority and vote again on terms more preferable to themselves. "Once the president entered into that agreement with the Senate Republicans even while talks with the House were supposedly under way, that set the tone for the weekend and now you got Americans excited about a trillion dollars that is going to be in effect given away," Welch said. The bottom line is that it is a fast moving train and that has become clear and Washington is doing what it is finding easy to do," he said in an interview with The Hill. It’s tough to get into, and not in the least bit welcoming to. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), who just a week ago circulated a letter signed by 54 Democrats urging opposition to the deal, now says the "die is cast." Alea Jacta Est is by far and wide the most complex and historically minded Roman strategy game, or indeed strategy game in general. However you spell it, though, it's what liberal Congressman Peter Welch, who has been trying to rally the libs to fight for a change to the estate tax deal, just said, according to The Hill:Ī House liberal who has led the effort to stop President Obama's tax compromise with the GOP says efforts to change the package are futile. I see from the Googles that it is often rendered alea iacta est. But in last Saturday's times puzzle, there was a clue reading: The die is cast, to Caesar. I feel obliged to be in blue if I want to answer what they do.Any of you know your Latin? I, alas, do not.
That's my big problem, really, as a lifelong (going on 20 years now) blue hater. One doesn't work as well as you get up in skill and the other is relying on your deck actually giving you the bombs instead of 3 lands back to back while the enemy draws into more counterspell. Really the only counterplay to counterspelling is to a) bluff and hope the enemy hasn't read your board state correctly or b) overwhelm the enemy's counterspells with bombs. if I'm not in blue I have no counterplay. I can do a lot of these things in just about any color. I can make it hexproof, indestructible, sac it for another effect, remove the condition the kill spell checks against, and so on. I have a lot more ways to react and play around my creature being targeted by a kill spell.