Word: gridlocking
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...Blessed gridlock," explains Mark Melcher, director of Washington research for Prudential Securities. Good things have happened because the Republican Congress hasn't let Clinton tax and spend as he might like. And Clinton hasn't let Republicans cut taxes and possibly drive up the budget deficit and interest rates. That status quo looks like it will survive...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Arguments in Washington aren't bad. You do not see the North Koreans arguing. You do not see gridlock in Cuba. What you see in Washington is an argument about the best way that America should move forward...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "After four months of budget gridlock, the last thing this Congress needs is another freshman Republican...
...ambitious health-care reform, Clinton seemed like "dead meat," to use the dainty Beltway terminology. At first the Republican revolution made Clinton's doom seem even more certain. But it hasn't worked out that way. Many have noted the irony: elected on a promise to end Washington gridlock, Clinton may get re-elected as the guarantor of gridlock. He is Horatius at the bridge, our lonely defender against the Newtite hordes. Or (less partisan version): Americans have discovered that they like gridlock, as a protection against the excesses of both parties. They have not turned against the Republican vision...
...promise of universal health coverage, TIME's Jef McAllister says: "Clinton has to take considerable pleasure because the bill signings are a successful punctuation mark in casting Gingrich and the Republicans as extremists." Congressional Republicans, says McAllister, faced with increasing pressure from districts dissatisfied with the government gridlock, felt obliged to compromise and pass welfare, health and minimum wage bills. Part of a three- day run of signing ceremonies designed to showcase the President's achievements, Wednesday's event follows the President's approval of the minimum wage bill on Tuesday. He is expected to approve the welfare overhaul bill...