A year later UP trains were snarled in a devastating gridlock that cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars.
If, however, the large center of the electorate doesn't turn out to keep the system in balance, we may find ourselves with a Republican Party that is out of control, hard for even Mr. McConnell and Mr. Boehner to direct, and a political gridlock that will only extend our current miseries, while keeping our corporate keepers fat, profitable, and happy.
In the event of a tie vote, a bill fails, a recipe for gridlock that means there would be enormous pressure for a deal in which one or more senators switched parties, officials in both parties said.
The show of bipartisanship was striking after a summer of gridlock that left Congress with its lowest approval ratings ever.
A display of gridlock that would drain even the most hardened Los Angeles commuter, all caused by the weekend closing of a 10-mile stretch of Interstate 405.
As a result, all major legislative initiatives will require the approval of opposition parties, a recipe for gridlock that will hamstring her at home and beyond Germany's borders.
This year, the fiscal misery befits Job: a $19 billion deficit, legislative gridlock that has defied even a governor with an action-hero past, that same governor mightily resisting the lame-duck mantle, and an election year that makes compromise — increasingly a four-letter word — harder still.
Although the shift of power is not expected to affect the government's handling of the euro crisis, it could provide opportunities for the opposition to drag out other issues, resulting in an extended period of gridlock that could damage the governing coalition's public standing.
New York's elected officials went home Wednesday night without passing a state budget, making this the 20th year in a row the budget will be late and extending a pattern of state government gridlock that is unrivaled in the nation.
