On the right of the political spectrum, the tragedy has been blamed on everything from a lack of God in the classroom, to a lack of guns, with many voicing the view that the best way to prevent school shootings would be to arm kindergarten teachers.
Her story eventually drew members of Congress, documentary filmmakers, ABC's "20/20," and the federal-court system into its orbit — yet as Mencimer's investigation demonstrates, the disturbing story masked a tangle of conflicting accounts, rooted in everything from a lack of physical evidence to Jones's history of questionable rape claims.
One person told me half in jest that the best way to get voters to approve new funding would be to blame everything on a lack of support by Denver élites: a tax increase in the guise of rugged self-reliance.
Efforts there have been stonewalled by everything from a lack of accommodation to paved roads.
Trump has blamed the state's wildfires on everything from a lack of raking to a nonexistent shortage of water to fight fires to "bad environmental laws".
Liking everything shows a lack of experience and a backbone.
The building is ramshackle and very run down, stained by years of rain and mold, its old furniture rickety, everything clearly suffering from a lack of funds.
"There's a lack of everything," she said.
Kim Wood is a community leader in Blackpool who has been struggling to do everything he wanted due to a lack of staff resource, and used digital tools to help him.
"The players are trying their best but it just seems to be a lack of everything, desire, pace, is it this situation?
That has nothing to do with the economy and everything to do with politics: a lack of competitive House seats, which only heightens the stakes in the fight for control of the Senate, where the Democratic edge is marginal at best.
