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None in fact.
How can that be?
Surely it is a word for the times, they are all around.
We have to define it.
I know.
The origin is those republican politicians imposing strictures on the spending of the not them
Ye, OK spending bad, that's a viewpoint.
When the them are spending as much or more, where are the asswadgets?
Two party state issues, eh..? You see, if the power is not spread 50%-1 to one side and 50%+1 to the other, then there is always room for huwheeling and dealing. I suppose that's kind of what they do over in States as well, though with the individual senators. That seems unreliable as governing solutions go. When in a minority government (or Senate, for that matter) it is prudent to have a budget alliance with a non-governing party that puills enough weight... But that's prolly just me being all European about it.