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The Mounting Gridlock in DC

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FBN’s Gerri Willis on the rising partisan politics and gridlock facing our federal government.
Duration 1:17
Date Sep 28, 2011

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I don't know about you but I -- up to here with the way Washington can't seem to get anything done.

Back to recent Gallup poll shows people are more dissatisfied with the way the nation is being governed now than at any time in the past forty years.

But some people are reacting to Washington gridlock in some strange ways.

North Carolina governor Bev -- says the current congress should be allowed to stay in office.

An additional two years to help them get all their work done.

Apparently that -- governor believes it's election pressure creating all the dissension.

And while removing that pressure might help it would also limit your ability did just throw the bums out.

Worse a suggestion that our government could use a little less democracy.

That from former white house budget director Peter Orszag.

To quote him my nose is amazing we might be a healthier democracy if we were -- slightly less democratic one.

No doubt economists like Orszag love efficiency.

And watching a bill get -- is a lot like watching sausage get made there's.

A lot of disgusting stuff that goes in it and the process isn't pretty but losing voters' voices not acceptable.

It's not Obama's democracy or bangers or or -- or produced for that matter.

It's -- -- that's my two.