HappySqurriel on 24 July 2011
| Rath said: What you really need is to strip one of the existing houses of most of it's powers - in most other countries it's the upper house (the Senate in your case) that's much weaker. That way you can't end up with such a deadlock between the two. |
Deadlock is a feature not a bug ...
The government of the United States was designed with several checks and balances that tend to result in deadlock when a party tries to do something without support. It is only a really big problem now because politicians are so worried about how their statements or actions will be portrayed in a 24 hour news cycle.
