Government Gridlock

[awake]

Three Cheers for Gridlock!! (http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2012/11/three-cheers-for-gridlock.html)
Says (http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1218.html) Gary North:
[Obama] is boxed in. The House is solidly Republican. The Senate Democrats cannot get a 60-vote majority to shut off a filibuster.

Washington is headed for gridlock. This is good. This is not a dysfunctional government. A dysfunctional government passes lots of laws. The laws are almost always bad laws. Then the federal bureaucracy interprets and implements these laws in the Federal Register. What little that might have been good gets bad. A gridlocked government is the best we can hope for.

[Lucille]

Yup. It's a good sign:


So while Boehner will be under enormous pressure to “grow in office”–that is, cave in to Beltway pressures–the Speaker and his legion should remember that the American people seem to like divided government (http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-republicans-forfeited-the-economy/) and all that such a dispensation entails.

In the 67 years since the end of World War Two, one party has controlled the White House and both chambers of Congress for just 28 years; in the other 39 years, power was divided. And now, for at least another two years, it will divided again. So maybe the public thinks that gridlock is bad, but unchecked power for anybody, Americans believe, is worse. So once again, yesterday at the polls, the American people got what they wanted.

[presence]

stoked about US/Israel gridlock too:

http://rt.com/news/obama-netanyahu-gamble-relations-216/