If Republicans take over the policy levers, forget about it.
Worst of all, Ms Rousseff's policy levers are jammed.
In many places the policy levers look flimsy.
There are no policy levers that consistently correlate to increased growth.
And one is to simply push harder on available stabilisation policy levers.
Central banks have pulled all the conventional policy levers and a few unconventional ones as well.
When national politicians pull policy levers in Whitehall they often find they have no strings attached.
"Policy levers for improving care in the new NHS landscape are not being mobilised to support improvements to neurological services.
It requires pushing harder on all policy levers and taking more advantage of the synergies between them," she said.
"Increasing the supply of money is one of the many policy levers the bank had to target inflation".
That was perhaps the bubbling over point of his frustration at the EU's suffocating grip on the policy levers.
