Sometimes when we do things, the scribes, the pundits here in Washington, they act surprised.
Since I had the Treasury II proposals umpteen times, nothing in the Act surprised me (I later came to regret my intense study of Treasury II, because I would sometimes get confused about what did and did not get into the Act), I played a big role in planning the transition for our clients.
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You can blame Republicans who won't pass a budget, or Democrats who spend every single cent of tax money that comes in during the booms, borrow some more and then act all surprised when revenues, in a totally unprecedented, inexplicable and unforeseeable chain of events, fall during a recession.
Cook has been such a cipher that some are surprised he could act so brutally.
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WOMEN'S groups were outraged: but when the Supreme Court this week sharply rebuked Congress for overstepping its authority and struck down a key provision of the six-year-old Violence Against Women Act, even congressmen were not surprised.
For instance, is anyone truly surprised to discover that the act of building six nuclear reactors side-by-side on a seashore frequently bedeviled by earthquake-induced tsunamis might not have been a good idea?
The victim's son, Aaron Poland, told NBC News that he wasn't surprised by his father's final act, trying to protect a bus full of kids.
This is that old game of protecting "strategic industries"--Asia shouldn't be surprised if U.S. politicians now get more into the act.
Mr. Harak, 49 years old, says he was surprised to learn that he had a professional card that wasn't covered by the Card Act.
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