Word: gridlock
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hopeful that whatever the outcome of the disputed election, he can get action on a patient's bill of rights and campaign-finance reform, which have long been stalled. In an interview with TIME on Friday, Daschle said there are just two options for the new Senate: paralysis by gridlock or a miraculous display of bipartisanship. "I think the odds are against the prospect of real bipartisanship," he admitted, "but it's worth trying to beat the odds...
...their speed, size, snazz and craftsmanship, in their siren call to the restless spirit, cars sum up a lot of American virtues. They also waste natural resources, soot up the landscape and end lives. But that's for another book. Lewis has no photos of afternoon gridlock on the 405. She's here to sing the body automotive: mile-long Caddies outside a drive-in; the family car at Roy's Cafe, Motel & Gas. These elegant images of classic cars magically transport the reader to the intersection of Nostalgia Road and Dream Drive...
Uncertainty is the bane of Wall Street, and in America you don't get any more uncertain than an Election Day that was everything but. The markets can't start dreaming of gridlock in Washington until they actually get a president-elect, so the Commotion by the Ocean down in Florida has laid a bit of a bad trip on traders and investors used to watching politics out of the corner of their eyes...
...this goes on? These are uncharted waters for the markets, too, but a reasonable guess is that Wall Street can go on worrying primarily about its own problems for a while. The markets love gridlock, and for a while the Endless Election only confirms that next year, Washington will be seized with it. But if the thing takes another turn, one that starts to touch seriously on faithless electors and President Dennis Hastert, it will get ugly...
...interest in "serving the people of New York," a cause that can be advanced no matter who takes the White House. Sure, a Gore presidency would make it infinitesimally easier for congressional Dems to pass big-ticket items, but a nearly perfectly balanced House and Senate means gridlock will likely prevail no matter who becomes president...