Sentences with phrase «so lame duck»

The former Westchester County congressman said the no - so lame duck session in 2010 was «good» for Gillibrand because it produced results, thanks to the president's pragmatic approach, adding:

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First, the debt ceiling will expire around election time, so the government will face another shutdown and it will be politically brutal to assemble a majority in a lame duck session to raise it by the trillions that will be needed.

So it was all about politics — and the president expected as much, even in the current lame - duck Congress.

whoa whoa whoa — what exactly has been so lame - duck about the current admin and congress Ms. O'Donnell?

The Beer Institute is hoping a so - called «lame duck session» of Congress won't hurt the chances of finally passing the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act (CBMTRA), which would lower excise taxes, compliance burdens, and regulations on alcohol makers.

The Nats could very well renegotiate a deal before June 15 so that it doesn't include 2018, but it's also possible that Rizzo's team could play him out of a job before that deadline — it's «unlikely» that they let him be a lame duck after June 15.

It's the fans that keep sacrificing because this team can't get their head out of their own ass... please give me some examples when a top club ever let their best player leave for free at the end of a season... Wenger needs to go to PSG and get some money and talent for Sanchez so that we can end this nonsense once and for all... then he needs to publicly apologize for the way in which they handled the whole situation... if they allow Sanchez to go for free there is no way this club, under the tutelage of Kroenke and Wenger, will ever layout the necessary coin to replace such a talented player, especially considering that Wenger will be a lame - duck manager once again in the final year of his contract and we know how well that went last year... open your eyes people, Wenger has spoken publicly about how he hopes that the next manager can take this club to the next level... WHAT?!?... he then went on to speak about leaving them in the perfect position to be successful, which is one of the reasons why several pundits felt Wenger would leave after last season based on the financials and the fact that so many players had only one year left on their respective contracts... who says this shit??? If you believe you're leaving things in the best possible shape for your potential successor to achieve greatness it raises a couple of serious questions: Why can't you take things to the next level if everything is as great as you say?

But even so, it is the polluted political culture which permeates Birmingham city council — like Blackpool stamped through rock — that has rendered it a lame duck, infamous for the left hand not knowing what the right is doing; but none of this is new or limited to this current Labour leadership.

Paterson may be a lame duck with a low appropval rating, but he remains a popular figure in on his home turf, so his endorsement in this race could carry some weight.

They are hoping he wins downstate just so he'll never have to return to Albany for another lame duck session (but he didn't rule out running again as Senator).

Lame - duck Gov. Paterson, who has been struggling to be taken seriously, is widely seen as having received a major boost in his so - far fruitless budget negotiations with Silver.

So the Lib Dems are left with a lame - duck leader who has no connection with the public and no obvious strategy to develop one.

Malloy is a lame duck, so it's unclear how much legislative support he'll have for his proposals.

A legislative official set off the firestorm by accusing the lame - duck governor of going out of his way to break the Aug. 11 record so he can continue to bash lawmakers.

So only lame duck presidents use executive orders?

We in Alaska are celebrating the fact that Governor Gump has officially become a Lame Duck, she would not even win the primary so she will not run in 2010.

House rules require members to step down as chairman after 6 years, so Smith was already a lame duck.

Nor was Lincoln so idealistic that he'd be opposed to using corrupt means to buy the votes, such as by promising outgoing, «lame duck» members in House of patronage jobs as soon as their terms would expire.

So, it seems that after almost four years of stumbling, bumbling, fumbling, stonewalling and obfuscation, under the «leadership» of (the now lame - duck) Pachauri, the IPCC has been on a steady downhill path, and now the chickens are coming home to roost!

Washington's outgoing public lands commissioner, Peter Goldmark, refused to lease state aquatic lands for the project — perhaps inspired by the not - so - lame - duck moves of our outgoing president.

It's gotten so «silly» that even someone who calls himself a legal writer doesn't know that the vernacular term «Lame Duck» has been in common parlance for years, with respect to presidents and others, long before Obama arrived.