Then because you have the constituency side of things, if you're a responsible constituencyMP you have to catch up with that at the weekend.
If only he had done it earlier in the campaign, Mr. McCain's on-camera tongue-lashing of the celebrity news hound Maria Shriver -- "as recognizable a personality as NBC News has," in the lukewarm description of her colleague Brian Williams -- could have won over the considerable constituency that sides with the mad-as-hell Peter Finch railing against the TV news gods in "Network".
Given the current disproportion of grievances – and aggrieved constituencies – on their side, and the relative weakness of their bargaining position vis-a-vis Israel, it has always been true, though often wilfully ignored by both the Israelis and the Americans, that the greatest burden of risk falls upon the Palestinian leadership.
Strong constituencies on each side of Ariel Sharon's concrete wall oppose an agreement in which they must compromise on any single issue.
The three elements are: the embedded distrust between the two sides; concern over national security; and the illusions that significant constituencies on both sides continue to entertain, which ultimately deny each other's right to an independent state of their own.
Secrecy ensures there is no vocal constituency on the side of privacy.
Wedge politics unites a large constituency on one side, while splitting the coalition on the other side.
"A basic statement of principles, along the lines of the 1972 Shanghai Communiqué signed by the United States and China, could be developed to outline the parameters for U.S.-Iranian engagement, establish the overarching objectives for dialogue, and reassure relevant domestic political constituencies on both sides".
In other words, the prescription drug compromise allowed Democrats to further consolidate the senior constituency on the side of more generous government handouts.
The success of the legislation -- as well as the fate of the Obama Administration's recently announced tightening of a federal ban on domestic ivory -- hinges on the support of politicians and constituencies on both sides of the partisan divide.
