In a game billed as a Futility Bowl, something had to give in a contest that was not at all pretty.
She flounders in bills and a sense of futility, is pregnant by a meager lover who rarely comes to town, and not unnaturally, she can't sleep.
Never mind that producing two GOP-only bills is an exercise in futility, and never mind that the only immigration bill that has a majority in the House is probably one that nearly all Democrats would support.
D1 The Eastern Conference finals have become one of those annual exercises in futility, like passing a bill you expect to be vetoed, because of the Western Conference's dominance.
Writing in the Washington Post, Vince Bzdek argues that it wasn't until a woman -- Nancy Pelosi -- worked her way to a position of power that we got a health care bill after almost a century of futility.
Futility notwithstanding, the d120 is billed as the "ultimate fair die allowed by Mother Nature (i.e., mathematics!)," since a die couldn't, practically speaking, possess more sides or more symmetry, and dice must be symmetrical to be fair.
It has produced a numbing cycle of Washington futility: House Democrats pass a bill, but Senate Democrats, facing a filibuster by the Republican minority, fail to get the 60 votes needed to end debate.
Many of their peers and the game's coaches do not have the heart to tell them what they really think: that they still have no shot, that the Eastern Conference finals have become one of those annual exercises in futility, the equivalent of passing a bill everyone knows will be vetoed.
Although McConnell has branded it an "exercise in futility" since Trump would not sign the bill, Toomey and Corker hope to bring the measure up as an amendment to a defense policy bill on the Senate floor this week.
In what may be an exercise in futility, Representative Diana DeGette (D-CO) this week reintroduced her bill that would codify the Obama Administration's 2009 policy easing restrictions on federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells.
