VERONIQUE DE RUGY AND NICK GILLESPIE: Congress Isn’t Gridlocked, It’s Just Totally Irresponsible. “What we’re actually witnessing — and have been for years now — is not gridlock, but the abdication of responsibility by Congress and the president for performing the most basic responsibilities of government. Despite the fiscal crisis that Washington knows will occur if it fails to deal with unsustainable spending and debt, it hasn’t managed to produce a federal budget in more than three years.”