With Your Wallet
Between the budget showdown in May and the recent debt ceiling rift, politics in the U.S. have become messy. Ideological governance is at its most extreme the nation has seen in decades. We have a left Senate, a right House, a gang of Tea-Partiers threatening House Speaker Boehner's every attempt to engage in bipartisan decision-making, and a host of lazy Democrats who stayed home during the 2010 elections, but are now angry with President Obama for, in their words, cowaring to a Republican debt deal.
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