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ARIZONA - Editorial on Congress: America wearing clown nose in game of political chicken

Regardless of one's political ideology, there's no excuse for making the United States look foolish and dysfunctional. Congress needs to get past this latest exercise in governing by crisis. Vote to fund the government and raise the debt ceiling. Without conditions. After that, everything is negotiable. It should be negotiable. Republicans who believe their ideas represent the will of the people should be willing to debate those ideas on their merits without the leverage of a looming catastrophe. READ THE REST...

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