March 5, 2010

The Nation's Capital is One Sorry Spectacle these Days

Steven Thomma
McClatchy Newspapers


"Four out five Americans say Washington is so caught up in its own political intrigues that it can't even begin to fix the nation's big problems.

'It looks ugly, just ugly,' said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a political scientist at the University of Southern California.

'Washington looks totally dysfunctional right now. They can't seem to get even the most basic problems solved or even addressed,' said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster. 'It looks paralyzed by gridlock, by partisan sniping. And the country's fed up with it.'

A new McClatchy-Ipsos poll underscored the sentiment, with 80 percent of Americans saying that Washington is broken and unable to function. The survey also found that those Americans who blame either party are pretty evenly split over whether to blame the Democrats or the Republicans."


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