But Republicans continue to confound them, denying them votes on these issues and others, choking off their hopes for a final feel-good victory.
For a final feel-good twist, there is clever Web-based accounting software that sends a rebate to the school when a student, local business or even distant alumnus goes shopping at popular Internet sites like L. L. Bean, Toys RR" Us and Office Max.
To give it a more final feel, wipe your tears away, sense the ashes mingling in your tears.
Whether it was age, or weariness, or all part of that grand plan to break his own world record in the 200m next week, it was the first time since his breakthrough in 2007 that Bolt's run in a major final felt anything less than breathtakingly brilliant.
There is some surreal fun at the beginning as everything collapses, fake police open fire on dignitaries including Germany's "Chancellor Agnes Bruckner", and there's even a Final Destination feel to the way all these heads of state get whacked.
Soccer evil: The Dutch made watching the 2010 World Cup Final feel like watching Mel Gibson's personal cut of Apocalypto.
The plot, meanwhile, tilts from the random to the preposterous, and a final twist feels less like a payoff than like a cheat.
525 West 24th Street, Chelsea Through Oct. 12 After the majestic array of Walker Evans's influential black-and-white photographs, which dominated the Metropolitan Museum of Art's recent retrospective, it wasn't surprising that his color Polaroids from 1973-74, sequestered in a final gallery, felt like an afterthought.
"But to be stood here talking about being really disappointed about losing a big game at the end of the season because we could have potentially got to a semi-final feels a little bit ungrateful for all the hard work the players have done".
England's 21-9 victoverover Canada in the Women's Rugby World Cup final felt "surreal" and a "bit like a dream", said head coach Gary Street.
Missing the FA Cup final felt like a massive blow.
