Unsustainable Debt, Unsustainable Gridlock

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/12/09/unsustainable_debt_unsustainable_gridlock_112348.html

The current budget impasse has disheartened political observers and further eroded public confidence in America's governing institutions. In the latest RCP Average, only 12.3 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing. This may well be the most unpopular legislative body since Oliver Cromwell’s Long Parliament.