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When Will Americans Get Indignant?
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New Congress begins with charades and death threats

The Nation
by Ari Melber

01/05/11

Repealing health care, a pure symbolic activity, is one of the first votes scheduled for next week. House Republicans know their bill will not pass the Senate or clear a presidential veto. Maybe they want to get their irrelevant votes out of the way early. But it gets worse. The bigger story is the truly bizarre threat to freeze the debt ceiling, which could theoretically place the United States in default and spark a larger recession or economic crisis...

http://tinyurl.com/2bj58oq



Is there room for political compromise in an era of permanent campaigning?

Christian Science Monitor
by Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson

01/04/11

As the 112th Congress convenes, it must work to preserve one of America's greatest and most threatened national resources -- compromise. To do this, it must rein in the mindset of constant campaigning that isn't fit for the reality of governing...

http://tinyurl.com/2c8zhu8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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