They're all making vaguely appropriate noises, but it's obvious that the issue is off the agenda.
Discussion of the Bridge/John Terry issue is off limits but there is a clue to where Wright-Phillips' loyalties might lie when his Prince's Trust audience later ask him which opponents he has found to be most difficult.
But, clearly, once the robo-signing issue is off the table, investigators would lose leverage to pursue remedies for other possible illegalities in the packaging, marketing and transferring of mortgage securities.
Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, may or may not be right that those measures are achievable now, but the gay marriage issue is off the table in Congress because Republicans are no longer in a position to raise it as a wedge issue.
"This issue is off the table for now," German Football League president Reinhard Rauball said.
The fact that the rumor campaign surrounding Kagan has been settled doesn't necessarily mean that the issue is off the table, Republicans still seem poised to make gay rights a prominent feature of the confirmation process -- should she be chosen as Justice John Paul Stevens' replacement.
"The price issue is off the table... We've recognized that part of the problem of access to medicines is resources, health care capacities, infrastructure and access to sustainable financing.
