What if you could shoot or screw whoever you wanted without consequences?
"If they had passed the administration proposals as quickly as the administration wanted, the consequences for our economy would have been highly adverse," says Peter Wallison, a financial policy expert at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute.
In New York City, tenants told housing officials that they wanted "real consequences for other residents who violated the rule," said Andrea Mata, director of health initiatives at the New York City Housing Authority.
"Putting the word ART in it isn't a free card to do whatever you want without consequences," she said.
He also wants harsh consequences if Khartoum flouts the vote and stokes North-South war or fails to improve the bleak situation in Darfur.
But, as long as they're making political calculations about foreign policy (and who can blame them?), why don't Obama and Clinton stop to consider whether the public at large, and especially swing voters in November, really want the consequences of a sixteen-month withdrawal plan?
"We're able to have that internal dialogue: 'That's illegal, it's going to get me in trouble, I don't want the consequences, do the crime, do the time.' But a lot of people, they get so angry, so engrossed in what's going on at the moment, that they kind of lose control".
We find it hard to imagine that Mr. Medvedev — himself a highly qualified legal scholar — would want the consequences of this judicial farce to stand during his tenure as president; it would mock his pledge to rid the country of "legal nihilism".
No one has the right to do anything they want without consequences.
Putting the word ART in it isn't a free card to do whatever you want without consequences.
