Sentences with phrase «duck president»

So, he'll continue being a lame duck president for the next four years, too!

I've got more important things to worry about than expanding to federal contractors the executive order (s) of a lame duck president.

So only lame duck presidents use executive orders?

He's a lame duck president with diluted power; Democrats control the U.S. House and Senate; and he's burned up much of his political capital with lawmakers wrangling over the war in Iraq.

Maybe it's just a statement that Trump is «a sitting duck President».»

Executive orders are abused by lame duck presidents and those without support in Congress.

It is hard to imagine any substantive deals Ma, a lame - duck president, can actually agree to.

But with an interim coach, a lame - duck president, and that president's right - hand man plotting to take his spot, appeasing Gonzalez or anyone else like him was the last thing on the mind of anyone semi-in charge.

I understand why it's natural for political junkies to obsess about» 08: we have a lame - duck president, a potentially deadlocked Congress, a divisive war in progress, some compelling characters in the race, and the chance for real political change depending on how things turn out.

Republican leaders in the Senate have said they will not hold any hearing on Garland's nomination because Obama is a lame - duck President.

This is a lame duck president.

Such a hole in intellectual thought will be difficult to fill, and our current lame duck president has small chance of finding a replacement of such constitutional fortitude.

That is prefereable to me, because I think that the next administration whould take time to analyze the best options, rather than let an unaccountable lame duck President and Congress set the tone.

«Even though President Bush is a lame duck president, the fact remains that he misled our country into an illegal war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, most of them innocent Iraqi civilians.

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I mean, who wouldn't want to tune in and have a jet - setting actor - millionaire, a government handout beneficiary, a Pope, the globe - trotting Secretary of State, the lame - duck president, the «Horndog - in - Chief» and the leader of the U.N. come on for 96 minutes and berate you for doing things like driving your car, eating hamburgers, and just not caring enough about the planet like they...

And a quiet pause on judicial nominees for our lame duck president.

A lame - duck president, an empowered opposition, a looming election: They're hardly the ingredients for a resounding White House triumph.