"...most of us used to favor cap-and-trade...": Before the Tea Party began pushing Republicans to the right, many conservatives believed that climate change was a serious problem and that one way to address it was a market-based system of trading pollution rights. In fact, cap-and-trade was originated in conservative think tanks but when President Barack Obama proposed cap-and-trade in 2009, all Republicans were suddenly against it.
"We already spend more on the CBP than on the FBI and DEA combined."
In fiscal year 2012, the Customs and Border Protection division of the Department of Homeland Security spent $17.9 billion, compared to $14.4 billion for the FBI, DEA, Secret Service, BATF, and several other agencies combined.
Gil-John uses the example of Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower building the interstate highway system in the 1950s. For decades afterwards, many Republicans, including those from North Carolina, routinely voted for transportation bills and other investments in infrastructure.
In truth, Louis' allergy to celery can cause anaphylactic shock and is thus potentially much more serious than Robert's allergy to mohair, which does not.
Dilly DeSantis, the hoody-wearing 19-year-old analytics expert who is now an important adviser to Andy, is based on the young data scientists who worked out of "The Cave" in President Obama's 2012 campaign headquarters in Chicago. One of them, a former child prodigy named David Shor, was only 20. He and his colleagues were competitive with Nate Silver, the well-known analytics expert.