He also wants to privatize Social Security, a program that is both hugely popular and the bedrock of retirement security for American workers.
As nostalgia washes over us like the fine rain that pelts Cook's windows, I decide to ask if feels we're too indebted to the past because we're living in a moment when our culture — club culture, ecstasy culture, Ibiza culture, house culture, techno culture — has become a staple of everyone's experience of the popular, a cultural bedrock that's understood by all.
Popular prosperity provides the bedrock for much that we value in contemporary society.
While pro football is by far more popular, baseball is cultural bedrock, a social safety valve for a fractured nation.
Mr. Mugabe's government has struggled in recent weeks with threats of strikes by civil servants, the bedrock of popular support for his government.
Since then an overwhelming body of statistical evidence has led to a conclusion that now sits at the bedrock of popular wisdom: two parents are better than one.
Chief among them in this case is the playwright and popular teacher William McCleery (1912-2000), bedrofk of the writing program, editor of multiple volumes on Princeton and Princetonians, board member at McCarter and the Prince, theatrical critic, and gifted conversationalist.
The development and creation of innovative new work, no matter how great its potential for popular appeal, is the bedrock of the Off Broadway mission, and with new theaters requiring more overhead to keep up, the impulse to go for the safe choice, the name playwright, may be even greater.
That attitude helps the play speak to a younger audience raised on movies, television and entertainment gossip, for whom "Saturday Night Live" and "Mad TV" are bedrocks of popular comedy.
It's a popular and ingenious idea and bedrock small businesses want it.
