Do-Nothing Boards of Directors of mutual funds that summarily approve excessive investment advisory fees.
He may be thinking about his legacy and avoiding the charge that he was a do-nothing leader.
But it has impressed New Yorkers accustomed to politics-as-usual and to do-nothing mayors enmeshed in party machines.
By adopting the do-nothing Congress meme, Mr. Obama implies that Mr. Reid and his Senate Democrats have failed.
At home, both parties dig in their heels, Congress in a do-nothing standstill.
In fact, Tikehau is the antidote to all that: the ultimate do-nothing island.
Harry Reid, the majority leader of the current do-nothing Senate, not long ago summed up his feelings about our nominee.
Currently some 30 pro-growth bills languish in Mr. Reid's do-nothing Senate, lest the buck ever be passed to the president's desk.
And let me just offer an advance warning to the old, big-spending, do-nothing, me first, country second crowd: Change is coming.
Conventional wisdom says the do-nothing House Republicans will lose more than 15 seats tomorrow and wake up to Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi.
Democrats could dig in their heels, hoping to run against a "do-nothing Congress" -- but then Republicans would get credit for any legislative victories.
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The conservative impulse is to prefer do-nothing government to do-something-dumb government.
And perhaps a do-nothing government is exactly what this country needs.
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Horrified when the do-nothing crowd suggested I was taking sides, or losing my objectivity, I was forced to confront this charge, and examine our Golden Rule.
Everybody back here in Washington, I think, recognizes that this Congress was called the do-nothing Congress in this past term because not a lot did get done.
In particular, delaying doing anything has led to a continued do-nothing equilibrium for employers, whose hesitancy to hire in light of this uncertainty has kept unemployment growth tepid.
And, in crossing party lines, Mr Giuliani has sometimes slipped into New York's traditional do-nothing-Democrat mode: he has, for instance, made little effort to tame New York's municipal unions.
The president, however, is not a CEO with everyone else in Washington under his direction and going after Mr. Reid's do-nothing Senate would be a good sign that Mr. Romney understands that.
In just three years Mr. Obama has been such an inspiring leader, confidence-builder, political organizer, and policy-maker that he simultaneously faces a do-nothing Congress, a do-nothing business community, and a do-nothing economy.
This November, we could elect five new conservative women -- Deb Fischer, Sarah Steelman, Heather Wilson, Linda Lingle and Linda McMahon -- to the U.S. Senate, ending the do-nothing-but-harm reign of Harry Reid.
Strangely, Gore has not been able to parry this charge that Washington under the Clinton-Gore years has become a do-nothing bickerfest, in large part because he refuses to highlight the administration's litany of achievements.
After complaining about a "do-nothing Congress" that is hamstrung by "Republican extremists, " Democratic congressional leaders now complain that Republican legislative initiatives are a sham -- an attempt to create political cover without enacting meaningful programs.
And I can assure you he would like nothing more than to be deprived of the opportunity to run against the do-nothing Congress because Congress actually decided to act and pass the American Jobs Act.
Then Republicans should campaign next year against a do-nothing Democrat Senate, and a do no good president, who sold himself to the country in 2008 on the false pretenses that he was a non-partisan moderate.
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This is, they believe, a real attempt to come clean about where we stand as a country, not just an attempt to shake off the damaging opposition narrative of Carwyn Jones and his do-nothing government.
So until recently they hardly ever seriously considered or modeled the do-nothing scenario, which is a tripling (820 ppm) or quadrupling (1100 ppm) of preindustrial levels of carbon dioxide over the next hundred years or so.
When Republicans complain about him doing this, we invite them to end their misery, pass the American Jobs Act and prevent -- deprive the President of the capacity of running against Congress as a do-nothing Congress.
Look, prior to today I'd been asked, oh, isn't this just politics and just the President is out there doing this because he wants to create a contrast with Republicans, he wants to run against a do-nothing Congress?
If they're going to treat us the way they are and - Maliki's going to be criticizing us as he is, and have a do-nothing government, we just need to gather up all of our equipment, our men and women, and come home.
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