You call that dropping a plan.
"I'm going to be looking for other means to address this problem."
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President Barack Obama said Wednesday he will look for ways to control global warming other than placing a ceiling on greenhouse gases.
"Cap-and-trade was just one way of skinning the cat; it was not the only way," Obama said at a news conference a day after Democrats lost control of the House. "I'm going to be looking for other means to address this problem."
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9J8SKSO4.htm (http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9J8SKSO4.htm)
Let him look, in fact, I'll buy him a flashlight and junior spelunking kit and he can climb up Barney franks' ass and stay there until he finds one.