What Washington needs now is a New Deal culture — or, more precisely, a new culture of the deal.
All the elements are in place: a president who prides himself on the art of the deal. Congressional Democrats who have made careers out of fashioning deals. And a government-closure stalemate that has reduced Washington to paralysis, exposed American government to ridicule and called into question whether our political system works at all.
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