Royal still wants a new ballot while Aubry heads a coalition whose only rationale is "Anything but Ségo".
Unlike every other President since Roosevelt, Clinton must deal with a world in which the Cold War is no longer a rationale for anything.
The new way of doing business was the perfect expression of the "do anything" rationale: the concentration of unheard-of powers in the presidency (and vice-presidency) and the application of raw force against all enemies, real and perceived – to intimidate, to obtain information and to punish.
My rationale is that anything that annoys terrible people is probably worth doing.
The paradox for the Obama administration, though, is that as the scope of the resolution narrows, the rationale for doing anything at all diminishes.
"If something worthwhile takes a dive, the production people use that as a rationale not to do anything worthwhile in the future," he said in the interview.
"The fire is already burning but that is not a rationale not to do anything about the Olympics," said one signatory, the University of Ottawa professor Amir Attaran who wrote about his concerns in an article for the Harvard Public Health Review.
The rationale had little, if anything, to do with the plaintiffs' argument that certain communities of voters — the poor, the elderly, the African-Americans, the Latinos — were being disproportionately burdened in trying to obtain the proper form of identification.
The rationale had little, if anything, to do with the plaintiffs' argument that certain communities of voters the poor, the elderly, the African-Americans, the Latinos were being disproportionately burdened in trying to obtain the proper form of identification.
