Word: lames
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...Lame Duck? That's a Quack Joe Klein's parting shot at a president who once had an approval rating in the high 70s and still has an approval rating twice as high as Congress's is out of line [Dec. 8]. Armchair quarterbacking is a national sport, and while I recognize that Klein leans a bit to the left, his column shows a stunning lack of perception. To paraphrase a political line from the past, "It's the security of the people, stupid." This President, like all Presidents, has his faults, but the economic results of a decade-plus...
...Lame Duck? That's a Quack! Joe Klein's parting shot at a president who once had an approval rating in the high 70s and still has an approval rating twice as high as Congress's is out of line [Dec. 8]. Armchair quarterbacking is a national sport, and while I recognize that Klein leans a bit to the left, his column shows a stunning lack of perception. To paraphrase a political line from the past, "It's the security of the people, stupid." This President, like all Presidents, has his faults, but the economic results of a decade-plus...
...Three and the network of small companies that supply them, a bankruptcy of even one could lead to a ripple effect that could jeopardize as many as 2.5 million jobs. Now the fate of those jobs, and the already tanking economy, are in the hands of a lame-duck President whom most Americans blame for the country's current woes...
...blessing on a bill only to discover (yet again) that the outgoing President doesn't carry much weight on Capitol Hill. "The White House does not vote in the Senate," said one Senate GOP aide. "It's offensive to many congressional Republicans that they'd choose working with a lame duck than with their colleagues." (Many Democrats counter that the door was always open to the Republican Senators - but that they simply chose not to come to the table...
...Lame Duck? That's a Quack...