Gridlock Looms as Stealth Agent of Change in Deadlock on Deficit

The Nov. 21 demise of the congressional “supercommittee” on debt reduction provided analysts, legislators, talking heads, occupiers, anti-occupiers, and even the silent reasonable majority with another opportunity to decry the scourge of American politics: gridlock.

“Washington is broken,” announced Representative Tim Walz, a Minnesota Democrat, in a written statement. “Americans are understandably frustrated with the bickering and gridlock that has become a staple of the way Washington operates.”