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Crib notes on ending political quibbling
Kurt Shillinger
The eight senators who crossed the aisle to break the shutdown impasse all said the same thing. As Tim Kaine of Virginia put it, 鈥淎fter 40 days, it wasn鈥檛 gonna work.鈥� It usually doesn't. Since 1981, there have been five major shutdowns of the U.S. federal government. Brinksmanship more often harms public trust than it changes policy. The House is poised to vote Wednesday to reopen the government. After that, American lawmakers might draw a useful tip from a friend across the Pacific.
鈥淥ne should not decide matters alone,鈥� Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae told parliament last month in her first policy speech since taking office. 鈥淧olitics is not about making decisions dogmatically. Instead, politics is the act of talking together, struggling together, and making decisions together.鈥�
