"If this once-in-a-generation opportunity to pass a public option goes down the drain after we were just a couple votes away in each house of Congress, everyone will remember exactly who was and was not willing to fight when it counted," said the group's co-founder, Adam Green, when asked why he aired the ad.
If we fail to defeat the insurance companies, Americans will look back at this week as the one when we lost the best chance in generations to pass a bill to help working families deal with health care.
The NSSF faced a once-in-a-generation decision: help pass background check reform supported by more than 90percentt of Americans and nearly 80percentt of gun owners, or serve as an obstacle to saving lives.
He has been too solicitous to Republicans, too hands-off with Democrats, too detached and technocratic — even as a once-in-a-generation opportunity is passing liberalism by.
In 2009, with Obama in the White House and Democrats controlling both houses of Congress, Big Green took a roll on the once-in-a-generation chance of trying to pass climate change legislation.
12pm: arrive in Noosa As we pull in to the town, one of those once-in-a-generation super storms is passing down the coast.
Mary Robinson expressed her deepest regrets about the inaction of political leaders at Rio+20: "This possibility of a once in a generation moment passed us by". In her view, the only way forward to a sustainable society is through civil organising.
Mary Robinson expressed her deepest regrets about the inaction of political leaders at Rio+20: "This possibility of a once in a generation moment passed us by".
The 112th Congress is set to enter the Congressional record books as the least productive body in a generation, passing a mere 173 public laws as of last month.
As Steinhauer pointed out in September: "The 112th Congress is set to enter the Congressional record books as the least productive body in a generation, passing a mere 173 public laws as of last month.
