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Congress's Biggest Failures

Why this Congress is "a special kind of inept."

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Ready to get your outrage on? As we come to the end of a thoroughly unproductive year, legislation-wise, The Atlantic’s Chris Good takes a look today at the five biggest flops of the 112th Congress. From the nauseating debt-limit stalemate to the Senate’s refusal to fill 81 judicial vacancies, this Congress has shown that it’s “a special kind of inept.” “On the cusp of every important decision, its inner conflicts make it scream ‘No! We Can’t'—and the blunders flow freely form there. If the 112th Congress was a Shakespeare character, it would be Hamlet.”

Read it at the Atlantic

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