Republican lawmakers are deciding Thursday whether they want to make a Right to Work push in a lame duck session, a possibility that has filled the state capitol with union protestors.
That is surely why Mr Blair is happy to let her remain in office, a lame duck and not necessarily a game one, until the election.
Some have labeled Ryan a "lame duck, " a placeholder for whomever Idzik decides to hire next offseason.
Once again, he has certainly made mistakes, not least in choosing a lame running mate and engaging in a futile debate about the debates.
As with many things in life, the more the merrier for these Roboni-i games, but sadly we only had one unit to play with and the solo games did get lame after a while.
Should Romney win the election, any attempts by a lame-duck president to ram through a trade deal will be met with fierce opposition from Congressional Republicans and a near-certain veto threat by a new administration.
We tend in this town to spend most of our time focusing on what we don't agree on, and I think, as I said earlier, the model of a lame duck session where people can have a civil conversation sitting at the same table making progress on issues is I think what the American people are looking for.
For fall, she gets a black-and-oyster lame dress, a metallic tweed suit and a jet-black silk and wool gown with a beaded back, cutout bodice and mermaid hemline.
"Obama's going to come in, if he wins a second term, as a lame-duck president from day one into a Congress that is now a poisoned well" because of his unilateral move to halt some deportations, she said.
The title, a lame Nietzschean knock-off, seems to be seeking a transvaluation of the word mess.
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This will come just as a lame-duck Congress is getting ready to call it a year and a session.
"For the first time, he'll likely be viewed as a lame-duck governor, " said Mark Strama, a Democratic state representative from Austin.
Mr Brown is not yet a lame duck, but his hopes of leading anything more than a tail-end government look increasingly forlorn.
But that is a lame excuse: it should be much easier to count bodies than to put a value on diverse sorts of economic output.
In 2002 Rumsfeld, irritated by Shinseki's insistence that American troops were stretched too thin around the world, had made Shinseki a lame-duck Army chief of staff by announcing his successor while Shinseki had more than a year left to serve.
Elsewhere, and as always at Oscar, the proof is in the details: Stunning were a silver lame mousseline caviar beaded fringe gown, a black chantilly lace threadwork and ostrich feather embroidered gown, and yellow silk faille silver bullion floral- and bead-embroidered gown.
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When confronted, he gave a lame excuse about not realizing he was reaching into the case.
There is now a lame duck government in Portugal, with elections expected within three months.
How will Democrats get a lame duck administration to support whatever proposal they eventually put forth?
Mr Rutte is a lame duck after resigning when the budget negotiations broke down.
Moreover, a lame-duck Senate session is hardly the place for momentous decisions about U.S. national security.
"So I don't see any reason why we can't work together in a lame-duck session, " he added.
Thus our collective financial fate is likely to be left to the actions of a lame duck Congress.
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Ahmadinejad, with a year left in his second term, was a lame duck.
Nor is there a lame Knight-Rider bar of lights to signal your speed.
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The final two months of 2010 brought tumultuous elections and a lame-duck Congress that was the busiest in decades.
If that were to happen during Mr Duisenberg's years, he might seem a lame duck, with little public support.
In a controversial Schwab ad, a manager at an unnamed brokerage exhorts his troops to push a lame stock on customers.
Speaking after their meeting, John Kelly said they told the cardinal that they considered him to be "a lame duck leader".
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