non-starters

Getting a national exchange with a Medicare option, bans on denying pre-exisitng conditions, end of recission, employer/individual mandate, and stripping the anti-trust exemption from the insurance industry sounds pretty centre-left … which is where the party SHOULD be … but almost all of those conditions are non-starters.

Think Progress » Poll Confirms Massachusetts Election Was Not A Rejection Of Health Care Reform 2010

Getting a national exchange with a Medicare option, bans on denying pre-exisitng conditions, end of recission, employer/individual mandate, and stripping the anti-trust exemption from the insurance industry sounds pretty centre-left … which is where the party SHOULD be … but almost all of those conditions are non-starters.

Think Progress » Poll Confirms Massachusetts Election Was Not A Rejection Of Health Care Reform 2010

No mention is made here of the thousands of non-starters that Ertegun must have encountered in his nightly prowls.

The Man Behind the Music 2011

Yet the session with Sperling cemented the fact that, despite growing evidence the economy will not heal on its own, this administration is failing to marshal an adequate response, accepting the conventional wisdom that all potential initiatives are political non-starters.

Larry Summers: The American Economy is Sick 2011

Such reforms have been non-starters with most of the Democratic caucus due to fierce opposition from public sector unions.

California Budget Battle Inches Forward Allysia Finley 2011

Doing so would necessitate the NLD disavowing its election victory and the ethnics relinquishing their means of preserving autonomy—clearly non-starters.

Change Burma Can't Quite Believe In Kelley Currie 2011

Making a real dent in a land where the car is so entrenched is tough sledding and I would imagine any policies that severely discourage cars are non-starters.

making bikes more practical in america 2009

Making a real dent in a land where the car is so entrenched is tough sledding and I would imagine any policies that severely discourage cars are non-starters.

tingilinde: 2009

Many of the suggestions would appear to be non-starters politically.

Second Term Policies, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

I have omitted suggestions for taxes that I think are total political non-starters in the current environment, like a VAT tax.

Lyric Hughes Hale: How to Solve the US Budget Crisis -- Dismiss the SuperCommittee Lyric Hughes Hale 2011