“I am so disappointed in the government”
“Are we driving off a cliff with two sets of hands on the steering wheel?”
“What is wrong with those people!”
You can pick your own headline, depending on your political leaning. I remember my father, living in Curaçao 30 years ago, would admire the US Congress noting that it was the ‘worlds greatest deliberative body'” No more. No more.

**“Yet rarely has the political system seemed more polarized and less able to solve big problems that involve trust, tough choices and little short-term gain. The main urgency for both parties seems to be about pinning blame on the other, before November’s elections, for deficits now averaging $1 trillion a year, the largest since World War II relative to the size of the economy.” (read** the whole article in The New York Times)