In a recent article in the CNN newsletter, Stephen Collinson, Caitlin Hi and Shelby Rose provide excellent insights into effective political processes. President Biden and Speaker McCathy seem to have avoided what was becoming a crisis which would have plunged the greatest economy in the world into fiscal melt-down.
Experienced commentators have noted this as the latest of regular periodic outburst of what looks like brinksmanship as the power battle between Democrats and Republicans breaks out.
The issue is of course the lack of cohesion inside the parties, with leaders having to play out the fiction of party unity.
The are parallels with the political battles taking place in the United Kingdom presently.
