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Tuesday, Jan 8, 2013 - Posted by Rich Miller

* If you could describe the lame duck session in one word, what would that one word be?

Be creative, but one word only, please.

146 Comments

- Donnie Veal Limone - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 11:41 am:
lame

- Dirt diver - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 11:41 am:
Rhetoric

- Dave Dahl - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 11:42 am:
Quack.

- Apple - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 11:42 am:
Scotch

- Fan of the Game - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 11:43 am:
Mallard-odorous

- Griz - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 11:44 am:
Wasted

- 47th Ward - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 11:45 am:
Squeezed.

- just sayin' - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 11:45 am:
pointless

- Meaningless - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 11:45 am:
Disabled !

- Cincinnatus - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 11:45 am:
Expected

- Professor - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 11:46 am:
Expected!

- SG8prl - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 11:46 am:
noise

- Not It - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 11:46 am:
Timewasting

- Pfft_-_ - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 11:47 am:
fubar

- Ah HA - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 11:47 am:
Stalling

- RNUG - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 11:50 am:
Yada

- Spliff - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 11:50 am:
Quinned!

- OneMan - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 11:51 am:
Quinnrific

- fonefly - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 11:53 am:
Expected

- anon - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 11:55 am:
Foobar

- G. Willickers - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 11:55 am:
Conjunctivitis - everyone’s poking each other in the eye

- Skeptic - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 11:56 am:
Is “” a word?

- Cincinnatus - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 11:56 am:
Squrrel!

- Cheryl44 - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 11:59 am:
Pointless

- Cog - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 11:59 am:
Squander

- MrJM - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:01 pm:
LOLame

– MrJM

- Roadiepig - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:01 pm:
Predictable

- not applicable - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:02 pm:
Malarkey

- wordslinger - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:03 pm:
Mallardorous

- RNUG - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:03 pm:
static

- train111 - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:04 pm:
anticlimactical
or
“dudd-eriffic”

- Poster - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:04 pm:
Yawn

- OurMagician - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:05 pm:
Illinoisesque

- geronimo - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:05 pm:
uninformed

- Wensicia - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:07 pm:
non-sequitur

- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:07 pm:
FAIL

- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:09 pm:
confusing?

- LincolnLounger - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:09 pm:
Ennui

- Darienite - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:10 pm:
Madiganized

- OneMan - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:11 pm:
NULL

- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:11 pm:
Pathetic?

- geronimo - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:12 pm:
coerced

- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:12 pm:
Moot!

- Meaningless - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:13 pm:
Embarrasing

- Tsavo - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:14 pm:
impotent

- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:15 pm:
Choppy

- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:17 pm:
legalesed

- Huh? - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:17 pm:
sigh . . .

- Commonsense in Illinois - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:17 pm:
Why?

- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:19 pm:
For the Mushrooms - “Fail-Safe”

- Abe the Babe - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:20 pm:
Childish

- Dan Shields - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:21 pm:
unconscionable

- Nearly Normal - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:22 pm:
Pathetic

- Can - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:22 pm:
Insubstantial.

- Anon. - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:22 pm:
Redux

- WhoKnew - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:23 pm:
SNAFU

- Cheryl44 - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:26 pm:
Illinnoying

- KickHere - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:27 pm:
Mislead

- illinifan - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:28 pm:
trifling

- Anonymiss - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:30 pm:
Par.

- Pink E. Kent - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:33 pm:
>less

- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:33 pm:
- Cheryl44 - ,

Well done!

- Budget Watcher - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:36 pm:
Enigmatic

- siriusly - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:38 pm:
alabama

- G. Willickers - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:39 pm:
Ninety-eighth

- The Captain - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:42 pm:
SNAFU

- Product of the 60's - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:44 pm:
Unquinneventful

- Budget Watcher - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:49 pm:
quintessential

- Senate - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:50 pm:
Undocumented-Gay-Gun-Toting-Drivers-Get-Pensions

- 1776 - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:50 pm:
Lame

- Wensicia - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:51 pm:
void

- Amuzing Myself - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:52 pm:
Typical

- whatnext - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:55 pm:
Herpetologic-knell

- Jimmy - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:56 pm:
duck!

- Esquire - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:56 pm:
Unproductive.

- RNUG - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:58 pm:
Cheryl44,

Second O.W. … best yet

- Anon - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:58 pm:
Baloney

- Rufus - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:59 pm:
Worthless

- John Bambenek - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:02 pm:
Can I use a picture instead?

http://storage.canoe.ca/v1/blogs-prod-photos/2/a/1/f/9/2a1f9fdf9823e5cb62167482a604a0ac.jpg?stmp=1318907836

- Philo Center of the Universe - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:03 pm:
Schlimmbesserung

- 3rd Generation Chicago Native - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:05 pm:
pointless

- Kevin Highland - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:05 pm:
contemptible

- Re-elect No One - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:08 pm:
PAT-thetic

- Deep South - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:14 pm:
whythehelldidtheyevenmeetinthefirstplace

- Jake From Elwood - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:14 pm:
Mangled

- Third Reading - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:16 pm:
Fowl!

I’m outta here.

- Lennonandmccartney - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:20 pm:
Antiteleological

- Ah HA - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:21 pm:
John Bambenek, That is So HILARIOUS!!! The best of all on this topic!!!!

Rich, Got to admit, the best!

- reformer - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:22 pm:
dis-Trib-appointing

- Joe M - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:23 pm:
Discombobulated

- Ash - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:25 pm:
Illinois

- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:25 pm:
TII

- Gator - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:26 pm:
Booooooo-rrriiiiiinnnngggggg

- Cog - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:28 pm:
Kodos

- Sunshine - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:32 pm:
Inept

- anon - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:37 pm:
deceitful

- populist - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:37 pm:
Corporatocracy

- Skeptic - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:39 pm:
Actually, I think we need to give some credit where credit is due. I’d say “Non-felonious.”

- Meier's Half Full Glass - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:40 pm:
Quinnsipid…

- Meier's Half Full Glass - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:44 pm:
Or following - Sunshine -’s submission:

“Quinnept”

- Karl - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:45 pm:
Flaccid

- Budget Watcher - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:50 pm:
serpentine

- SO IL M - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:50 pm:
Played

- mokenavince - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:51 pm:
Useless!

- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 1:56 pm:
License-rific?

- SirLankselot - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 2:00 pm:
Punt

- Formerly Known As... - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 2:04 pm:
Disarray.

- Formerly Known As... - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 2:05 pm:
MoreOfTheSame.

- Alex Arroyo - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 2:10 pm:
Was

- Esteban - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 2:11 pm:
Redumdant.

- Robo - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 2:15 pm:
Quack

- Arthur Andersen - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 2:22 pm:
Clustered

- Arthur Andersen - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 2:22 pm:
Clustered

- RIO1945 - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 2:26 pm:
Ducksoup

- Downstate Dem - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 2:27 pm:
Skunk

- Rocketman - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 2:29 pm:
PATHETIC

- Ruby - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 2:32 pm:
Stonewalling.

- walkinfool - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 2:34 pm:
nauseating

- SAP - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 2:44 pm:
Ducktacular

- Veil of Ignorance - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 3:25 pm:
Thanks to SAP, but still can’t believe nobody’s said Riduckulous yet…sorry, I had to.

- Hawkeye - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 3:32 pm:
FUBAR

- WhoKnew - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 3:37 pm:
Illi-NOISE

- amalia - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 3:49 pm:
stuck

- dupage dan - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 3:52 pm:
Supersqueezalsangamoniumexgovalidocious!

- dupage dan - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 3:55 pm:
=== Cheryl44 - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 12:26 pm:

Illinnoying ===

I like that one alot.

- Knome Sane - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 3:55 pm:
Turgid

- DD - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 4:04 pm:
Broken

- Irish - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 4:11 pm:
Madiganorchestrated.

- ericd1112 - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 4:22 pm:
Madiganistan

- JustMe_JMO - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 4:25 pm:
embarrassing

- DLC - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 4:27 pm:
Overpaid

- Just The Way It Is One - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 4:32 pm:
Hopeful

- Pension Pete - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 4:52 pm:
weasels

- bullet - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 5:08 pm:
redundant

- Wilson Pickett - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 5:16 pm:
Bodacious!

- I M Willis - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 6:12 pm:
Expendable

- honest abe - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 7:57 pm:
futile

- Mama - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 8:02 pm:
commissioned

- Leatherneck - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 8:22 pm:
LameDiscoDuck (as in the Rick Dees and the Cast of Idiots disco hit from fall ‘76).

- Leatherneck - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 8:23 pm:
SqueezytheCharmined.

- WeNeedStewards - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 8:27 pm:
Dysfunctional

- WeNeedStewards - Tuesday, Jan 8, 13 @ 8:32 pm:
Inept

- Little Egypt - Wednesday, Jan 9, 13 @ 1:06 am:
And perhaps last but not least - orchiectomied.

- Harry - Wednesday, Jan 9, 13 @ 5:19 am:
idiots

- The Cardinal - Wednesday, Jan 9, 13 @ 7:50 am:
CO-OPTED

- Third Reading - Wednesday, Jan 9, 13 @ 8:02 am:
Cheese-n-quackers.

I’m outta here.

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