So is the feeling on Wall Street that Washington is just acting too late now?
It looks as though it will be too late now to get the tax extension onto the June ballot.
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And Karl Rove's successful 72-hour voter turnout program from 2002 and 2004, which used a grassroots network to push voters to the polls three days before Election Day, would come too late now.
"Indeed rather than being too late, now is actually a necessary time to act, before even larger numbers begin to anchor and before anchoring takes firm root globally, " he said.
Even now it is not too late - let us all act NOW in our own global interests.
It was always succinct and went like this: To prevent a war in Europe is now too late.
However, the Independent Electoral Commission said that whatever happened, it was now too late to organise a vote that month.
It is now too late for Mr Milburn to argue that the local difficulties the flu always causes should be kept in perspective.
However heavy the cost turns out to be, in terms of lives lost and money spent, it is now too late to avoid it.
Sport England had repeatedly reassured his firm that it was happy with the plans, he said, and it was now too late to change them.
Even at companies that designed bonus programs specifically targeted at retaining year-2000 workers, it's now too late for new workers to be eligible for many of these programs.
Mr Peddie told the court that, even if the court ruled it was now too late to go back on the children's adoption three years ago, it was vital that they learned the truth and that Mr and Mrs Webster should be allowed to see their children.
It will also come too late to help Uruguay, now on the brink of default simply because of the fall-out from Argentina.
The intention was to diversify away from China but now it is too late to have prevented this short term catastrophe.
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But any extra Saudi oil released now will be too late in arriving and too heavy a grade to keep America's drivers happy.
However, for this coming generation of frustrated, single men, any policy changes now are too little too late.
Somebody needs to go to jail because those levees were never really maintained the way they should've been, and now it's too late.
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That came too late to save Germany though and Italy now face a Spain side who they held 1-1 in the group stages earlier in this tournament.
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Now it's too late, too late for comedies.
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Now it seems it is too late to rescue the system of free-floating currencies.
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