31.   No politician wants to be seen as jeopardizing Social Security.

32.   No politician wants to seem too opportunistic at a moment better reserved for mourning.

33.   No Texas politicians want to consider more base closures in the Lone Star State, but they are finding that they have to.

34.   Nor do politicians want to take on media corporations whose news divisions cover them and whose donations increasingly support them.

35.   No politician wants opponents to say thousands of jobs were lost on his or her watch.

36.   No politician wants to incur the wrath of the gray lobby of senior citizens by goring the sacred cow.

37.   Nonetheless, few politicians want to take a chance that they could make anything easier for the other side.

38.   No Japanese politician wanted to get near the job when it came open in August.

39.   No sane politician wants to seem indifferent to American suffering.

40.   Now, some politicians want to create a new dollar coin.