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The NYT lead on the fast track fizzle calls it the most severe legislative setback for Clinton since his national health care plan died, and the paper reports that many on Capitol Hill are saying that it marks the beginning of Clinton's lame-duck status.
After the 1992 election, when the lame-duck George Bush pardons Weinberger, Walsh is truly overtaken by rage, and considers going after the ex-president himself for obstructing justice.
Posted Dec. 10: Can a lame-duck House impeach the president?
Likewise in 1992, he applauded the Bush administration's lame-duck pardons of Caspar Weinberger, Elliott Abrams, et al.
"It's a sad day for America when extreme elements of one party seek to impeach the president on a party-line vote in a lame-duck Congress," White House Special Counsel Greg Craig declared Saturday.