Sentences with phrase «making lame duck»

While Scott Walker looks forward to looking at all aspects of the state budget Jim Doyle works to hamstring efforts by making lame duck commitments that will last for years after he leaves office.

Four in ten said he had made himself a lame duck, but the majority — 59 per cent — disagreed.

Still, the frayed plot strands of the 2004 Manchurian Candidate make it a lame duck to Frankenheimer's first - term thriller.

Not exact matches

House Republicans lost five seats, making passage in January a more difficult proposition than pushing through legislation in the lame - duck session.

More to the point, with a lame - duck, deeply unpopular Republican president and Democratic - controlled Congress, some say there's unlikely to even be a 2009 budget to serve as a vessel for pork stuffing, circumstances that make a moratorium much less punishing.

Can he get this country's focus back on the average person, or is he just another lame - duck figurehead who is beholden to Congress to make all of the decisions?

Except it makes a certain amount of sense when you look at the different scenarios of Bud Black's lame duck year.

The feud between O'Neal and fellow superstar Kobe Bryant; the presumed lame - duck status of coach Phil Jackson, whose contract negotiations with team owner Jerry Buss, the father of his Significant Other, are on hold; the frustrations of Hall of Fame rentals Malone and Gary Payton — all have made for compelling subplots but not always compelling hoops.

no one can be that delusional without having Wenger blood run through their veins... this team has already conceded 2 of 3 in August and you believe we can get 45 of a potentially 52 available points before Xmas... no wonder this club can't seem to take it's fan - base seriously, albeit I'm sure your assessment would give the Grinch who stole soccer a quarter chub... anyways, enough talk about the criminally insane with internet access... we have much bigger fish to fry... like what were the real objectives behind the choices made by our lame duck manager on the weekend

Gov. David Paterson this morning insisted this morning that his «lame duck» status has actually «freed» him to make the hard choices necessary to restore New York to fiscal solvency and leave the state on more stable footing for whoever succeeds him in the office.

Obama made New START ratification a priority during the 2010 post-election lame duck session of Congress, and Senators John Kerry (D - MA) and Richard Lugar (R - IN), the Democratic Chairman and senior Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, were leading supporters of the treaty.

A lot of people believe, rightly or wrongly, that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is in the last half of his last term, which could make the Democratic former mayor a lame duck.

Johnson and other city politicians deserve their problems because they are making it worse by cozying up to the governor against what they view as a weakened, lame - duck mayor.

This time around, we would not sit down unconcerned for the Vice President to be made a ceremonial head and a [lame] duck as was done to the former Vice President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama.

Imagine a future in which the Tories continue their civil war while businesses look in horror as a lame duck government is unable to tackle major issues, let alone day to day decision making.

ALBANY — Gov. Paterson, acting more like a dead duck than a lame one, never even made it to the office yesterday.

-- Tony Avella, of Queens, apparently was informed there would be a vote, but was otherwise engaged and couldn't make it to the Capitol for the lame duck session.

To make things worse Heath's economic policy zig - zagged and he also reversed the party policy on nationalising the «lame ducks» of British industry when Rolls Royce and shipbuilding were taken into the public fold.

Since losing re-election last month, Rep. John Sweeney has played hooky in Congress, skipping votes, dodging reporters and avoiding his new make - shift office in a basement cubicle set up for lame ducks.

Which makes next week, after Thanksgiving and before Christmas, the perfect time for the lame - duck U.S. Senate to be deciding the fate of a bill that would pay the medical costs for thousands of people suffering from illnesses caused by the September 11 terrorist attacks.

While supporters of mayoral control over the schools say it is designed to make one person accountable, Benjamin said that's not always the case, noting de Blasio, because of term limits, is a lame duck for the next four years.

But biomedical lobbyists hope that he will use his clout as chair of both the Senate spending panel that controls NIH's budget and the authorizing committee that sets policy for the agency to make things happen when the lame - duck Congress returns after the fall election.

That runs a fair to good chance at making RT a lame duck.

The Windows 8 Pro tablets coming into the mix might change things a little (I think these will ultimately make RT a lame duck OS and hurt the sales even more), but the Microsoft OS will have to take a distant third place in the tablet wars, much as it has in the phone wars.

New allegations help to put anonymous communication into context WASHINGTON D.C. ---- Rescuers of lame ducks in the Washington D.C. region are high alert after Washington Post national labor issues reporter Danielle Paquette on January 29, 2018 revealed alleged details of workplace misconduct claims made by at least three women against Humane Society of the U.S. president Wayne -LSB-...]

And while its always fun to play as Claire, and Natalia makes a nice, creepy addition to Resident Evil's expansive cast, doddering Barry and his supremely foul - mouthed daughter Moira (who at times channels Rose McGowan at her C - movie worst) are kind of lame ducks.

And I saw you make clearly inaccurate statements and when challenged to back them up, you again ducked accountability, offering the lame excuse that being accountable for your attribution of the «deaths of tens of millions» would be a «diversion.»

Turnbull's lame duck status was made farcically clear by Cabinet's non-decision on Kevin Rudd's proposed nomination as UN Secretary General.

NAR is pushing for a lame - duck session of Congress to make conforming high - cost loan limits of $ 729,750 permanent and to eliminate the repayment requirement in the first - time homebuyer tax credit.