Word: gridlocked
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Which is putting it mildly. Consider the role of Congress, the institution controlled by Democrats that is supposed to be an ally of a Democratic President, a confluence Clinton promised would end government gridlock. In speaking with Congress's Pooh-Bahs, the President-elect's people have heard the following advice, almost uniformly: Clinton must get the deficit down, and Congress is ready to help. O.K. so far. But don't you dare try raising taxes beyond the new levies on the rich that Clinton spoke about during the campaign. Oh? Well, then, which spending programs would Congress support cutting...
Here, in fiction, and in less than a minute, the gridlock that has paralyzed Washington is neatly exposed: Congressmen don't have to chase money with their votes; there's so much around they can cop all they want no matter what their stance on a specific issue. "It's not that bad things happen, although they sometimes do," says Marty Kaplan, The Distinguished Gentleman's screenwriter. "It's that good things don't happen. The real story is that Washington is frozen, and a lot of people are making a killing keeping it that way." Kaplan knows the territory...
...POLITICAL INTEREST: Greed and Gridlock...
Rather than address the real problems in the schools, Flynn wanted to preserve the symptoms, encouraging a member who couldn't work with his colleagues to stay on and grind the public schools further into gridlock...
...fuel supplies for much of the summer, reserves in Lithuania have run alarmingly low. The country also relies on the dangerously designed Ignalina nuclear-power plant for virtually all its electrical energy; several minor accidents have sparked fears of another Chernobyl. Angered by rising prices and political gridlock, voters were ready to give another chance to Algirdas Brazauskas, the Communist Party chief who broke with Moscow in 1989 and supported independence...