DA

Intrinsicness Bad
Intrinsicness is voting issue for fairness and education because a. Destroys neg ground 1. Can be said for every single DA the neg runs 2. DA key to neg ground without a DA only CPs and Ks theory can be run, allowing the aff to be far more prepared 3. DA key to education Reduces possible research scope dramatically b. Politics DAs good 1. Debating politics allows us to learn about political climate which are key public advocacy 2. Checks small and new affirmatives c. Time Skew unfairly wastes the negatives time 4. Side Bias Aff already has advantage because they can prep out neg Extend Agence France Presse 6/12, Jackson Vanik Will Pass. Main leaders of each political party in John Kerry and John McCain both support the bill and its Bipartisan support is obvious. This card actually cites figureheads of each party and doesnt conjure some fabricated maxim. Cross Apply Business Wire 11 evidence as Uniqueness on JV, HSR will pass it had bipartisan support from 12 democratic governors and 11 republicans. Extend Miller 11. This is excellent Brink evidence because it explains how Obama just survived tough congressional battles over the START treaty and his political capitol is so precious right now. Extend Freemark 12, this card explains how transportation will be difficult for Obama to pass in Congress and it cites specific evidence of High Speed Rail. Extend Commission on US Policy Towards Russia 9, This evidence is excellent in allowing us to access a multitude of impacts, proliferation, terrorism, global economy, and energy. It also isolates specific scenarios such as Iran, Al Qaeda and Afganhistan Extend Simes 7, this evidence is great in identifying the exact reason Heg will collapse, if dont get the bill passed Russia and China will join together to surpass the United States in hegemony Extend Allison and Blackwill 11 evidence, Russian Relations are key to America for Heg, energy, and especially geopolitics as they are a member of the G8 and are key to global finance

A2: Winners Win

Fighting for passage of the plan FORCES a trades off with other agenda priorities Bernstein, political scientist who writes about American politics, 11 (Jonathan,
8/20/2011, The power that a president does -- and doesn't -- have A president has less power than Obama's liberal critics think -- but they also have more power than they realize, http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/08/20/bernstein_presidential_pow er/index.html)
Moreover, the positions of the president and most everyone else are, to look at it one way, sort of opposites. The president has potential influence over an astonishing number of things -- not only every single policy of the U.S. government, but policy by state and local governments, foreign governments, and actions of private citizens and groups. Most other political actors have influence over a very narrow range of stuff. What that means is that while the president's overall influence is certainly far greater than that of a House subcommittee chair or a midlevel civil servant in some agency, his influence over any specific policy may well not be greater than that of such a no-name nobody. A lot of good presidential skills have to do with figuring out how to leverage that overall influence into victories in specific battles, and if we look at presidential history, there are lots of records of successes and failures. In other words, it's hard. It involves difficult choices -- not (primarily) policy choices, but choices in which policies to fight for and which not to, and when and where and how to use the various bargaining chips that are available.

Inherency
Extend Business Wire 11, the government is already paying 2 billion dollars to do the HSR we dont need the plan.

Advantage 1 Climate
Extend Whitelegg 9 evidence, his evidence cites 2 main warrants the first being that HSR has not worked in Germany and the second that it is twice as bad on C02 as trains Extend Thumma 12, a worker for National Geographic. There a multiple reasons for Global Warming such as solar radiation, agriculture which accounts for 35 percent, and volcanic activity. Extend Brook 4, there is no way HSR can solve all of warming, they dont even have an adequate solvency advocate who would say they could solve their impact. Too many alt causes. Extend Vranich 8, their energy evidence has no brink and they would be building up 3.8 of emmissions with the plan. Extend Vranick 8 second card, they cant solve for warming because even if they dont use FF states use it to generate energy.

Advantage 2 Competitiveness
Extend Rugy and Mitchell 11, no short term advantage. prefer this over fields 11 evidence because it cites a study done by the IMF saying that implantation delays stifle this Extend Zakaria 9, it cites empirics saying that the collapse in 2008 did not have the instability effects. Prefer empirics. Extend Rugy 11, infrastructure spending would be bad for the economy even if it generated jobs in the short run Extend Monteiro 11, Unipolarity, the whole point of Advantage 2, would be bad and cause state proliferation Extend Utgoff 2, this proliferation leadsd to Nuke war