Possible Clues:

• Unable to move
• Unable to get agreement from 21 down following 23 down
• Unable to get agreement on flat pint perhaps given to local drunk
• Not going anywhere with lifeless, local drunk
• At a stalemate
• Not going anywhere with unresponsive writer behind bar
• In an impasse, like followers of Rastafarianism without its leader
• At an impasse, as the Senate
• Unable to get agreement precisely secured