Word: lames
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ability to go to the country," warns Vice President George Bush. Reagan is not an insider like Lyndon Johnson, who would deal and wheedle, reward and punish. Reagan's way of disciplining Congressmen is simpler: he just goes on TV and turns their constituents against them. Indeed, the term lame duck loses much of its meaning with a President who knows how to use television as a bully pulpit...
Above all, under the 22nd Amendment Reagan's second term must be his last. To succeed as a lame duck, he will have to revise some familiar assumptions about presidential power and its exercise. But then, he has spent four years doing ex- actly that...
...teen angst that features this reflection on the mutability of contemporary existence: "Like takin' Carrie to the high school prom/ something's always goin' wrong." The Ramones are the philosopher kings of nerddom ("Every one's a secret nerd/ Every one's a closet lame"), the laureates of losers everywhere. They have no interest whatsoever in being cool, and for that alone may they always be blessed...
...Republican Party of this. They see the election as a clear mandate for the hard-line Reagan and for their more extreme goals. Nor will the right wing necessarily hesitate to attack the President if it considers him too weak, especially because he will be increasingly a lame duck. Nevertheless, he remains a hero to a majority of Americans, and his anti-Communist credentials are so strong that the country at large would have a hard time accepting the notion that he had gone soft...
...always with the best of intentions, 'What greater service we could render if only he had a little more money and a little more power.' " Reagan told his Cabinet Secretaries that he was ready to hit "the sawdust trail," spreading the gospel to cut Government spending. "Lame duck?" he chortled. "I'll put a cast on that lame leg, and that will make a heck of a kicking...