This would require a lame-duck Congress and, if Mr Obama loses, a lame-duck president to haggle over extending policies they detest.
They're "a lame excuse for a clean energy policy, " says Lamar Alexander, the Tennessee Republican and chairman of the Senate Energy Subcommittee.
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.
It seems obvious that the momentous decision of whether to terminate the F-22 at just 180 aircraft one that could prove fateful in deterring a future conflict with increasingly hostile and aggressive adversaries should be made not by a lame-duck presidency but a newly mandated one.
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.
"It's a lame public policy, " he said in a telephone interview.
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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.
It may well be true that Mr Bush is disinclined to bomb Iran now that he is a lame duck, but the possible advent of a President Obama might just make Israel more inclined to do so itself.
"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.
He's being seen as a lame duck by some in the country, but this summit surely gives him a chance for a last hurrah if it's seen as a success.
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.
However things may turn out, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad comes back to the global scene with a lame-duck presidency that may last anywhere from few months if the mounting opposition succeeds in demanding a new election, or else go to a full term if it fails.
As a lame-duck Congress once again faces an impending deadline for dealing with expiring tax cuts, TPC has released a new Tax Calculator to compare potential outcomes.
Then that retweet, nestled alongside a series of lame race-baiting, would be a reflection of how badly she misses the point.
And he is a lame-duck, having announced his retirement at the end of this Congress.
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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?
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