The concerns of Mr. Obama's political advisors about alienating Jewish voters on the eve of the 2012 election aretrumped by presidential sympathy for the Palestinian right to a homeland.
"Talk radio has come out and just blasted us, and for the most part, they are using trumped-up numbers that are not accurate, " Chambliss said to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Dushni Weerakoon of the Institute of Policy Studies in Colombo says that the concessions are so generous that political pressure for a deal must have trumped economic concerns.
Their competition prompted each to feats of virtuosity: On several tables made when the demand for exotic rosewood trumped Honduras mahogany, carved elements of solid mahogany are paint-grained to mimic rosewood.
They are the ones who borrowed extravagantly with the pretense that good intentions trumped fiscal responsibility, who set the rules that require banks to hold zero capital against government debt, and who permitted the European Central Bank to buy billions of euros of that debt from banks.