Gridlock

Peter Orszag: "...We need to minimize the harm from legislative inertia by relying more on automatic policies and depoliticized commissions for certain policy decisions. In other words, radical as it sounds, we need to counter the gridlock of our political institutions by making them a bit less democratic." VS. General James Doolittle who said that "...competition is the stimulus to improvement."

Bev Perdue: "...we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make to just let them help this country recover." VS. Andy Kessler who says that entrepreneurs "create wealth for society by inventing and being in business and investing their profits into even more productive produces and services. That's 'giving back.'"

Socialism, government dictat and less democracy VS. free enterprise, indicidual initiative and wealth creation. Where do we go from here when two sides are ideologically polarized?