Posted on 02/22/2010 1:24:31 PM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
Washington (CNN) -- Two months into the new year, Congress is at a standstill, stuck in party-line votes, heated debates and electoral politics. And there's no indication that will change before mid-term elections in November, political observers say: Democrats are afraid to take chances on anything that might alienate voters, and Republicans can stand pat and hope the anti-incumbent mood brewing in the country will help weaken Democrats' control of Congress. "The problem is the combination of highly ideologically polarizing political parties operating at sort of near parity," said Thomas Mann, a congressional scholar at the nonpartisan Brookings Institution.
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I like Congress best during its recesses. The country can breathe a sigh of relief then, or just breathe.
And very corrupt. That is the basic problem.
We were hoping they’d be frozen out of DC for several more weeks! That way the amount of mischief they could get up to would be limited.
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