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Over the past few weeks, Congress has been engaged in a very important debate. It may have been messy. It might have appeared to some like their government wasn’t working.

But, in fact, the opposite was true.

The push and pull Americans saw in Washington these past few weeks was not gridlock. It was the will of the people working itself out in a political system that was never meant to be pretty.

You see, one reason America isn’t already facing the kind of crises we see in Europe is that presidents and majority parties here can’t just bring about change on a dime, as much as they might like to from time to time. That’s what checks and balances is all about. And that’s the kind of balance Americans voted for in November.

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