Word: gridlocking
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...climate, George W. Bush may be itching for some old- fashioned deal-making back home, where he's already scored triumphs on education and taxes. But then again, he may want to linger in the departure lounge. Waiting for him is one of the most frustrating and gridlock-producing pieces of legislation to bind up Washington in recent years, which Democrats will force Bush to take up this week: the patients' bill of rights...
...TIME/CNN poll suggests he may be right: 45% of those polled believe the country will be better off with the Senate in Democratic hands, while 36% prefer Republican control, and 19% aren't sure. But this balancing act may also be a formula for gridlock, with each side able to block the other but neither able to push its priorities. If no one budges, "we're all losers," Daschle said...
...what is called a crisis in America these days--expensive gasoline--which is one of the reasons I don't know where I am any- more, because I thought that a crisis meant the AIDS pandemic in Africa or the state of public education here, or the justice-system gridlock. Anybody recognize this place...
...Wall Street learned to love gridlock. Under New Democrat Bill Clinton, the traditionally Republican bastion figured out that when Democrats couldn't spend what they wanted, Republicans couldn't cut taxes what they wanted and the whole place shut down over the budget seemingly every fall, things went pretty smoothly. Clinton managed to cut the deficit and do some trade deals, and of course Greenspan was on the job. Enter boom...
...back in a big way. Especially when Bush started delivering. And when the man in the White House is hacking away at regulations, refusing to talk about price caps and recommending a new power plant a week for the next 20 years, the last thing Big Business wanted was gridlock keeping Bush from doing the nation's business, which in this case, Coolidge-like, seemed to be just that. The game had changed...