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• n  person who does no work
• s  characterized by inability or unwillingness to work toward a goal or assume responsibility
  a do-nothing government

• Barack Obama has a do-nothing energy policy, which opposes increasing American energy exploration, opposes a break on summertime gas taxes and opposes incentives that will develop .
• Over the subsequent two decades, Hansen's concerns for the world's future have only mounted, eventually putting him on a collision course with a do-nothing Bush Administration.

• idler
• loafer
• layabout
• bum

News & Articles

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• ABCNEWS: Cat runs for mayor in beleaguered Mexican town
  Frustration with do-nothing politicians has sparked a surreal situation in the eastern Mexican city of Xalapa, where two students have nominated a cat for that town's upcoming mayoral election.
  June 8, 2013 - El Paso Times

Quotes

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• John McCain in Reuters
  Let me offer an advance warning to the old, big spending, do-nothing, me-first, country-second Washington crowd: change is coming,McCain said.