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# Washington DC's Favorite Olympic Sport...
- URL: https://ivn.us/washington-dcs-favorite-olympic-sport/
- Published: 2012-08-04T19:10:53.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-22T19:29:01.000Z
- Author: Wes Messamore
- Tags: News

Synchronized kicking...

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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?