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To hope that an all-Democrat House, Senate, and Presidency don't actually follow through on the policies they stated they intend to vote for seems rube goldbergian, banking on a double-secret reverse psychology switcheroo, a plan-so-crazy-it-might-work.
"The political ground is already shifting under Big Labor's card-check initiative." Ann Althouse 2009
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He doesn't blab his plans to his opponents before attaching them to his goldbergian contraption and wander off to make a cup of tea - he has them killed by competent underlings.
How do you like your villains? Glenda Larke 2008
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Our eventual (horrible, rube-goldbergian) workaround was to store the actual information in MySQL / innodb and have a script nuke the LDAP database and re-inject the data whenever it fell over.
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