(Sunstein had flown in for a planned visit, with an engagement ring in his pocket, but the timing didn't seem right; he postponed the proposal).
Just two hours later, House Speaker John A. Boehner was forced to postpone the vote on his proposal to increase the debt ceiling at the last minute, apparently facing a revolt among some of those very members.
In Istanbul, the main exile opposition group once again failed to form a transitional government, deciding instead to postpone the step while new proposals are drawn up.
In fact, there was no proposal to postpone the vote and Mr Bush has no such constitutional authority.
The Kremlin has rejected proposals to postpone the election, and there was no talk of delay after the latest raids.
"If there is no possibility to postpone the vote, then we will vote against the proposal," said Marcel van Beusekom, a spokesman for the Netherlands agriculture ministry.
But amid a fierce debate over housing set off by the micro-apartment proposal, lawmakers chose to postpone the vote until November.
When that attempt failed, the issue came back to the full committee, which eventually backed a proposal by Switzerland to postpone the issue until the 2014 WHA.
The companies sent a letter to the F.C.C. chairman, Michael Powell, asking him to postpone the decision so that they could make "major revisions" to their proposal.
After two failed proposals, advanced by the Prussians, the various delegations agreed to postpone the issue until after a peace treaty had been signed.
Postpone the pain, postpone the recovery.
