... the aid plan in the Senate, not only taking on the Democrats but standing in open revolt against their party's lame-duck president on the measure. The Republicans want to force the companies into bankruptcy or mandate hefty concessions from ...

... The Cardinals and the Yankees and the Red Sox didn't cut it in '08. Can we blame at least some of this on a lame duck president? He's getting fingers pointed his direction for all sorts of occurrences. Golly, Phillies and Rays in the World ...

... fighting, can goodness and light break out in the halls of Congress? Or does rancor over impeachment and a weakened lame-duck president mean there will be a standoff in the political wars that will last until next year's presidential elections ...

... is supposed to be a rubber-stamp Congress, eager to do the bidding of and validate every whim of a mediocre, lame duck president? Doesn't it dawn on anyone that only since Bill Clinton was allowed to defile the White House has the Republican ...

... hit rough waters in Congress, where Republicans must sign off on the budget. "We won't let the agenda of a lame duck president in any way reduce our commitment to smaller government, saving Social Security, paying down debt and providing ...

... billion under the spending plan proposed by Clinton -- if all the items are approved. Of course, with Clinton a lame-duck president, the chances of all proposals being funded is unlikely. But the state's two senators, Tim Hutchinson and Blanche ...

... locking lands up," the president said. "It is about freeing them up for all Americans for all times." For a lame-duck president seeking an environmental legacy, the declaration gave Clinton perhaps the best conservation record in the lower ...

... than that," Rutherford said. "Quite a bit more." It is an ethical issue and loophole -- this tendency of lame duck presidents to spend their last months seeking generous contributions for their libraries and facing no disclosure requirement ...

... section (the paper's beating heart), reporter Michael Powell let fly with this attempt at perspective: "A lame-duck president grants a slew of controversial pardons, eleventh-hour Get Out of Jail Free cards for the politically well ...

... either the right thing to do or it was not. Politics shouldn't have anything to do with it, and especially for a lame-duck president who could make -- and defend -- a controversial decision without fear of political consequences. But with Clinton ...