Washington DC's Favorite Olympic Sport...
Wes MessamorePublished: 04 Aug, 2012
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Synchronized kicking...
There's a lot of talk about bipartisan solutions, but perhaps not enough about bipartisan problems. Republicans and Democrats together have brought us this fiscal crisis Washington is in. You will probably never hear a politician on the campaign trail say that they support trillion dollar budget deficits, runaway spending by Congress, or a super complicated tax code, yet we have all these things. Why?
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