And just briefly, why would any president fire somebody as prominent as a defense secretary after losing an election with just a couple months left as a lame-duck president?
When the widow got home, she told her lame son what had happened on the road, and they were both made happier that day by the kindness of the two boys.
I AM a lazy fellow, and get terribly heavy in my saddle; not to mention that I'm always spending more than I can afford in bricks and mortar, so that I get savage at a lame beggar when he asks me for sixpence.
When they had gone forth, he went into the stable, and led the horse out; it was lame of one foot, and limped hobblety jib, hobblety jib; nevertheless he mounted it, and rode away to the dark forest.
They sauntered through the market-place together, Michele whistling between his teeth, and the Gadfly trudging along with a bundle over his shoulder, shuffling his feet on the ground to render his lameness less observable.
And all those 13 federal executions were under Trump, who went on an execution spree at the end of his term, including the first lame duck federal execution in more than a century.
The master was furious and said to his servant, hurry out to the streets and alleys of the town and bring back the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.
Because the longer you think he's going to be around, the longer it takes for them to start writing these lame duck pieces he doesn't have any leverage in Washington.