Independents Push Both Parties to Restrain Gov't

Welch & Gillespie, LAT
Forget President Obama, House Speaker John A. Boehner and the less-interesting-than-their-name-suggests "Gang of Six." When the history of the Great Debt Ceiling Debate of 2011 gets written, the main character will not be a Beltway negotiator, or even a politician. The only reason Washington is even talking about proposals to slow the growth of government spending, instead of robotically jacking up the nation's credit line for the 11th time in a decade, is that a large, decentralized group of citizen activists has spent the last few years loudly telling politicians from...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/07/26/independents_push_both_parties_to_restrain_gov039t_260084.html

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