Word: lames
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Japanese Prime Ministers are organization men: it is not in their job description to stand out. But Yasuo Fukuda was not only colorless but headed a particularly lackluster administration. In the last few weeks, his critics have described him as "dead man walking" and "a lame duck." On Monday, he told them they wouldn't have him to kick around anymore and tendered his resignation...
...Pelosi says she refused to launch an impeachment investigation into George W. Bush's many high crimes and misdemeanors because "you can't talk about impeachment unless you have the facts, and you can't have the facts unless you have cooperation from the Administration" [Aug. 11]. What a lame excuse! Did the Nixon Administration cooperate with Congress to provide the facts during its impeachment proceedings? Pelosi and her colleagues in Congress should be held in contempt for failing to uphold their oath to defend and support the Constitution when they took impeachment off the table. Richard Notkin, Helena, Montana...
...been an impressive performance, especially coming from a member of the lame-duck Administration of an unpopular President. What's not at all certain, though, is whether it's all going to work - to revive housing, prevent recession and avert a future mortgage bailout of epic, trillion-dollar proportions. The candidates for President are watching closely: both Barack Obama and John McCain have generally endorsed Paulson's actions, but it's clear that - with Obama's candidacy propelled in part by economic discontent - McCain has a greater stake in the current Administration's success. Either way, the next President...
...That post-Sharon political drift, combined with the serial reversals suffered by the Bush Administration across the Middle East - and its lame-duck status as the region waits for a new U.S. President - may at least explain why Israel's political class had been willing to allow Olmert to stumble on for so long. Now, Israel's leaders will be forced to forge a new equilibrium in a more testing time...
...with prospects for a peace deal slipping, the sharks will start circling. The increasingly lame-duck Bush Administration is already reversing itself on major Middle East policies by sending senior diplomats to engage Iran and hinting at a horizon for a troop withdrawal in Iraq. Hamas, already masters of the Gaza Strip, bragged recently that they could take on Fatah in the West Bank too, if not for President Abbas's movement enjoying the de facto protection of the Israelis. And Olmert's rivals also smell blood. Tzipi Livni, his Foreign Minister and rival within the Kadima Party, called once...