Word: gridlocked
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Last week's champ "Gridlock" vs. challenger "Doomsday Cult...
...often filled with cups of coffee and idle chatter. Yet their salaries gobble up 80% of the national treasury. To comply with the demands of the International Monetary Fund, Aristide must pare those ranks to 34,000. Whether these bureaucrats will back Aristide's efforts or try to gridlock his attempts to cut jobs is anybody's guess...
This week: "Mission-creep" vs. "Gridlock...
...Senate, there has never been a series of filibusters blocking movement of bills to conference. This has been total obstruction." He neglects to note, however, that Democrats joined in much of the obstruction. And the response of voters is mixed. They tell pollsters they don't like gridlock, yet they said they favor divided government 47% to 37% in a recent TIME poll. When nothing happens, frustrated voters lay most of the blame on the Democrats, who are in charge. Says Hastings Wyman, who has published the Southern Political Report for 16 years: "Anti-incumbency is part of this...
CONGRESS: The High Price of Gridlock...