I'm sure there are games that advocate a certain political issue, but they're generally going to be lame games, and if they're no fun to play, they're not really going to be effective.
Speaking after their meeting, John Kelly said they told the cardinal that they considered him to be "a lame duck leader".
The sheep were put down last month when a lorry was stopped at the port and the animals were found to be sick and lame.
Forty four sheep were put down at Ramsgate in September when a lorry was stopped at the port and the animals were found to be sick and lame.
It is hard to imagine, moreover, that the three Senators who are expected to be seated in time for the lame-duck session will be in a position to make informed decisions about this treaty.
"For the first time, he'll likely be viewed as a lame-duck governor, " said Mark Strama, a Democratic state representative from Austin.
Because as it now stands, the decision will probably have to be made in a lame-duck session, under an old Congress.
It would be wrong for a lame duck in Washington to tie the hands of the next administration on such matters.
This will only be the fifth such lame-duck session in 20 years.
The Mets picked up manager Terry Collins's option for 2013 at the end of last year, ensuring he wouldn't be viewed as a lame duck this year.
"When Majority Leader Harry Reid asked me if I thought the treaty could be considered in the lame-duck session, I replied I did not think so, given the combination of other work Congress must do and the complex and unresolved issues related to START and modernization, " Mr. Kyl said in a statement.
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Much of the work can--and probably will--be done in the "lame-duck" session following the election, but the dynamics of such sessions are notoriously unpredictable.
The lame duck session will be tough, too.
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The recent election strengthened the hand of those who want to extend all the tax rates at current levels, but the lame duck Congress may be a little cranky and not in an accommodating mood.
Thus our collective financial fate is likely to be left to the actions of a lame duck Congress.
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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.
But all that will just be a warm-up for what promises to be an awful year-end when lame-duck lawmakers will face their own version of an ugly triple witching hour.
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And, alas, a stable giant that could be playing a supportive role, Japan, appears to be suffocating itself with more of the lame governance that lost it the decade of the 1990s.
The 43 sheep that were destroyed were examined by vets who found that one had a broken leg, another was so sick it had to be put down, and 41 were severely lame.
And the immediate focus is going to be what we need to get done during the lame-duck session.
We're not exactly sure what makes these virus transistors so special, but apparently the transistors they've built out of the nano-coated strands, and sandwiched between two electrodes, are easy to switch between ON and OFF states, since they don't need to build up a charge at a lame-o capacitor before they can be switched.
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The title, a lame Nietzschean knock-off, seems to be seeking a transvaluation of the word mess.
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The Dakar Conference will just be another talking shop if governments are allowed to give lame excuses about shortcomings in girls education, run-down schools, inadequate teaching-learning aids, poor teacher supply, and funding.
And that will be job number one over the next few months of the lame duck congress and into the new year.
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Klein also makes another key point, namely that the lame-duck session after the November election could be crucial for tax (and budget) issues.
But he also said he didn't think a deal could be struck in the next month and a half during a lame duck session of Congress.
There is just no rational reason to think that lift will be any easier in the next Congress than in the current lame duck Congress, where our elected officials are supposedly more free to do the right thing, freed from electoral consequences.
In Spain national elections do not have to be held until next March, but Prime Minister Zapatero is a lame duck.
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