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No real relief from high taxes, no serious reduction of burdensome regulations, no improvements for beleaguered housing, energy, and health insurance markets, just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
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Christopher Carlozzi, Boston Herald, 20 Feb. 2026
The state’s enduring educational problems will not be fixed by rearranging the bureaucratic deck chairs and centralizing authority or even by boosting funding, but by decentralizing decision-making and placing more of it in the hands of parents.
—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 13 Jan. 2026
These superficial gestures amount to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
—Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026
As those viewers age, there is no sign they will be replaced by younger ones, meaning that CBS bringing in the 41-year-old Weiss as editor-in-chief may amount to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2025
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Christopher Carlozzi, Boston Herald, 20 Feb. 2026
The state’s enduring educational problems will not be fixed by rearranging the bureaucratic deck chairs and centralizing authority or even by boosting funding, but by decentralizing decision-making and placing more of it in the hands of parents.
—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 13 Jan. 2026
These superficial gestures amount to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
—Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026
As those viewers age, there is no sign they will be replaced by younger ones, meaning that CBS bringing in the 41-year-old Weiss as editor-in-chief may amount to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2025
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“Deck chair.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deck%20chair. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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