If this is not accomplished, even if some lame immigration reform bill is voted in, it will be as effective in ending our immigration mess as any other Rube Goldberg invention.
If the lame duck Congress is responsible — a big if — it will require the wealthy to pay more and shield the vulnerable from increases.
I truly regret if a lame attempt at humor suggested otherwise".
True, there are those cute, if somewhat lame, emoticons that cleverly arrange punctuation marks to signify an emotion.
If the lame duck Congress and President Obama can avert disaster, raising some revenue while not devastating the economy, they will have succeeded.
"I'll be damned if a lame duck is going to fiscally handcuff his successor with an expensive deal that the public opposes," Mr. Green said.
McManus, meanwhile, dismissed the incident as a misunderstanding caused by an overzealous party m.c., who had failed to point out that Manzano remains president — if a lame duck — for the time being.
Chris Lehane, a Democratic strategist, wonders if the lame duck has become "the legislative equivalent of an appendix" —useful in centuries past, but today only contributing to the cynicism that pervades American politics.
The show itself was an extremely choreographed, dancer-strewn affair, full of props that often came off as superfluous if not lame (particularly a spark-shooting fake motorcycle and a tiny chain-link fence she danced around).
