The US suffers from deadlock politics...too!

Times Union is a Albany, New York daily and yesterday's had an article by John T. Sullivan struck a chord with me..well at least provided an insight into the US political deadlock that plagues the Congress.

One of the axiomatic principles in our two-party system used to be: First, do the right thing. Second, if you can't do the right thing, at least do no harm.

This principle appears to have been abandoned by the zealots and ideologues who have taken control of the Republican Party, and who are determined to run the ship of government aground, if they don't send it over the nearest falls. They are bound to do what is best for their short-term and long-term political goals, regardless of the consequences to the Commonweal. It wasn't always thus. Read on.....