His frustration on the stimulus reveals a more profound impasse for his Administration.
But the issue has surfaced yet again, as another and seemingly more intractable impasse between the White House and Republicans threatens a debt crisis.
Our proposal to resolve the trade impasse: more trade and more aid.
The more protracted the impasse, the harder it will be for the parties to get back to the negotiating table.
Still, the narrative is too tempting to ignore, so here are five things that make the Illinois budget impasse more intractable than Pennsylvania's.
Having reached an impasse, more biochemical studies were performed; enzymatic activity from fibroblast culture revealed normal catalase activity and intracellular location, suggesting a single peroxisomal enzyme defect instead of a form of Zellweger syndrome.
They represent the first step toward ending an impasse of more than a decade between the United States and Russia over how to deal with threats to the Internet.
So far Mr Cowen looks less of a political visionary who sees a way out of the Lisbon impasse, and more like Mr Micawber, desperately hoping for something to turn up.
Raila Odinga, Kenya's new prime minister, and Kofi Annan, a Ghanaian who was the UN's secretary-general, said southern Africa's leaders must do more to resolve the impasse.
Mr. Odinga and Mr. Kibaki had been locked in a bruising political impasse for more than a week, after Mr. Kibaki revoked Mr. Odinga's suspensions of the ministers of agriculture and education on suspicion of corruption.
