One of the reasons for Palin's high approval ratings in Alaska was her support for hiking taxes on the oil companies and distributing some of the money to citizens.
He used these makeshift cotton thimbles in performance for a year, even while recording the Sibelius Violin Concerto, for Virgin Classics — a concession that might be compared to an Olympic sprinter, in search of ankle support, choosing to compete in hiking boots.
But this only puts the president in the same position as many of Petri's colleagues: willing, perhaps, to support a hike in the gas tax, but unwilling to proactively push for it.
Nothing is going to be enacted this year, anyway, so it would have made more sense for the administration to support a hike in corporate taxes -- and use it to highlight the difference between the president and his likely Republican challenger.
WASHINGTON -- Several congressional Republicans said Sunday that they would be open to increasing the amount of money the government collects in taxes, with a senior Republican member of the U.S. Senate going so far as to say he is willing to break his earlier promise to not support tax hikes in any form.
It turns out, Liam Dillon reports, this is the same strategy tobacco companies have used to defeat similar tobacco tax measures in 2006 and 2012, which has kept the state's cigarette tax comparatively low despite strong support in California polls for a tax hike for at least a decade.
Recreation and wildlife observations occur often in hiking trails.
Eleven days in hiking boots.
As Obama negotiates with Republican House and Senate leaders to prevent a dive over the "fiscal cliff," he will be under strong pressure from his reinvigorated liberal supporters to take a tough stand in support of tax hikes on the well-to-do and to more firmly limit spending cuts.
In addition, hiking opportunities abound.
