"Kim Stanley Robinson - Forty Signs of Rain" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robinson Kim Stanley)

тАЬCareful Joe. Ooh, thereтАЩs your tiger. ThatтАЩs the press corps, thatтАЩs a circus tiger, see its collar?
NobodyтАЩs scared of it. Although sometimes it does get to eat somebody.тАЭ



In the days that followed, Phil took the climate bill back to the Foreign Relations Committee, and the
process of marking it up began in earnest. тАЬTo mark upтАЭ was a very inadequate verb to express the
process: тАЬcarving,тАЭ тАЬrendering,тАЭ тАЬhacking,тАЭ тАЬhatcheting,тАЭ тАЬstomping,тАЭ any of these would have been more
accurate, Charlie thought as he tracked the gradual deconstruction of the language of the bill, the result
turned slowly into a kind of sausage of thought.

The bill lost parts as they duked it out. Winston fought every phrase of it, and he had to be given some
things or nothing would proceed. No precisely spelled-out fuel efficiencies, no acknowledgment of any
measurements like the ecological footprint. Phil gave on these because Winston was promising that he
would get the House to agree to this version in conference, and the White House would back him too.
And so entire methodologies of analysis were being declared off-limits, something that would drive Anna
crazy. Another example of science and capital clashing, Charlie thought. Science was like Beeker from
the Muppets, haplessly struggling with the round top-hatted guy from the Monopoly game. Right now
Beeker was getting his butt kicked.
Two mornings later Charlie learned about it in thePost (and how irritating was that?):

Climate Superbill Split up in Committee

тАЬSaywhat !тАЭ Charlie cried. He hadnтАЩt even heard of the possibility of such a maneuver.

He read paragraphs per eye-twitch while he got on the phone and told it to call Roy:

тАжproponents of the new bills claimed compromises would not damage effectivenessтАжPresident made it
clear he would veto the comprehensive billтАжpromised to sign specific bills on a case-by-case if and
when they came to his desk.

тАЬAh shit.Shit. God damn it!тАЭ

тАЬCharlie, that must be you.тАЭ

тАЬRoy what is this shit, when did this happen?тАЭ

тАЬLast night. DidnтАЩt you hear?тАЭ

тАЬNo I didnтАЩt! How could Phil do this!тАЭ

тАЬWe counted votes, and the biggie wasnтАЩt going to get out of committee. And if it did, the House wasnтАЩt
going to go for it. Winston couldnтАЩt deliver, or wouldnтАЩt. So Phil decided to support Ellington on
EllingtonтАЩs alternative-fuels bill, and he made sure they put more of EllingtonтАЩs stuff in the first several
shorter bills.тАЭ

тАЬAnd Ellington agreed to vote for it on that basis.тАЭ

тАЬThatтАЩs right.тАЭ