Word: gridlocking
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...find their own budget cuts -- and use up some of their own political goodwill in the process. If the result is a compromise that comes even close to Clinton's deficit-reduction goal, his strategy will be deemed a success. But if Senators fail to produce anything but gridlock, they won't be the ones to suffer humiliation...
Call it democracy. Call it anarchy. Call it gridlock. Call it another lesson in Governing 101 for Bill Clinton, now in the fifth month of his increasingly troubled presidency. Whatever it's called, the skirmishing between Clinton and Congress over the President's proposed deficit-reduction and tax plan threatened to erupt into all-out war last week as Republicans and several Democrats in both the House and Senate publicly attacked the proposal. If the Clinton package still has a fair chance of eventually passing in one form or another, that is less a tribute to the White House...
...orders in a reasonable amount of time. Yes, MacArthur was involved with actual troop movements, but years for closing bases and months for integrating gays are certainly unreasonable amounts of time. Clinton doesn't have to sack the Joint Chiefs, but he shouldn't have to put up with gridlock in a branch of government he controls...
This illusion pretended that if Democrats controlled the presidency and Congress, gridlock would end. During the campaign, liberals could list the well-intentioned legislation that had been passed recently and sigh, "If only Bush hadn't vetoed...
...theory sounds good, but it ignores politics. Under Bush, congressional Democrats often passed laws they didn't fully support because they knew the president would veto them--the goal of the legislation was simply to underscore the evils of gridlock and emphasize the divide between Democrats and Republicans. Now that they know Clinton will sign the legislation, moderate Democrats are much less willing, for example, to approve a law codifying the unrestricted right to abortion...