It is conservatives who have passed huge tax cuts favoring the wealthy, stuffed bills with corporate pork and expanded the corporate welfare state through tax cuts and subsidies.
Inside the Monteverde reserve, weaving among clusters of people with their own guides and tripod-attached spotting scopes, our tour group passed huge, leafy elephant ear plants and miniature orchids no more than a millimeter or two across.
America just passed huge tax cuts for the rich that will cost the government trillions and generally waste a ton of money in Washington, on everything from defense boondoggles to sexual harassment payouts for members of Congress, the latest version of the ostensible logic might go.
Through it pass huge tankers carrying a large fraction of the world's energy.
An army judge has sentenced the US soldier Bradley Manning to 35 years in jail for passing huge quantities of official secrets to the transparency group Wikileaks.
Republicans (we're looking at you, George Bush) say they like trade and then pass huge farm subsidies or steel-rescue bills.
That's where Jillette and another juggler, his buddy Owen Morse, first came across the kids, dressed like "refugees," casually passing huge numbers of clubs in a makeshift gym (Jillette remembers 12 clubs, Morse remembers 11).
A dusty, bumpy dirt track snakes north to rejoin the Mekong where we drove alongside the river's endless flood plains, passing huge communities of houses, mosques, Buddhist temples and schools, all built on stilts.
We pass huge plots at various stages of remediation, armies of soil-washing machines cleansing decades of chromium contamination on one site, a line of gleaming new industrial sheds on another, a spanking new speculative office building on a third.
What I don't see is the pitched window of the attic, the bend that the Spree, Berlin's main river, makes behind me, the distant facade of the magnificent Bode Museum; above all I don't see the three bridges with their streams of cars and pedestrians under which pass huge barges headed in both directions.
But to whatever extent Mr. Obama controlled the fate of his young presidency, Mr. Podesta believes that his most consequential decisions on domestic policy stemmed from one overarching conviction — that the president's most important job in a crisis, requiring nearly single-minded attention, was to pass huge legislation.
