The final congressional health bill must reconcile the versions coming out of the full House and Senate, and the powerful Finance Committee's rejection had appeared to be a final nail in the coffin.But this week Harry Reid, the leader of the Senate Democrats and an ardent fan of the proposal, dropped a bombshell.
David I. Weprin of Queens, a Democrat who has been one of the proposal's most ardent opponents, was encouraged that so many members were willing to stake a public position against it.
The prime minister's wife, Cherie Blair, is a high-powered employment lawyer and an ardent supporter of generous parental-leave proposals.
But even these most ardent supporters expressed doubts that his proposals would do much to alleviate unemployment, agreeing with economists and business leaders contacted by The Huffington Post Tuesday night that the speech offered little that would move the needle in the jobs market.
Mr. Greenspan, 77 years old, is not loved among ardent believers in Mr. Bush's tax-cutting proposals.
Would Torie's (and Obama's to-come) proposals just be a modern Prohibition since ardent gun owners also simply wouldn't comply with desirable restrictions?
After stating that each of these shortcomings "will prove persistent even in the face of the most ardent, well-meaning legislative repackaging," Vandeveld attacked the Senate Committee's proposal to "continue to allow into evidence statements obtained through coercion".
I'll admit it: Two years ago, I was an ardent supporter of Senate Bill 1, a sweeping pension reform proposal that would save the state more than $150 billion in pension costs over 30 years.
"I can't really take seriously all the proposals he has put out there," said Bruce Bartlett, an ardent believer in supply-side tax cuts who worked in Congress during the Reagan era and later in the first Bush administration.
Some of the most vocal criticisms against our proposal come from the left - the very people you might have thought would be the most ardent supporters.
