在双方降低了期望、试图达成一项更加折衷的减赤协议时,仍然没有可行的解决方案,这种状态一直持续到了2012年结束。随后,参议院的共和党人和民主党人决定搁置他们无法解决的分歧,从而达成一个相对小规模的税收法案,法案中将包括双方都至少可以勉强接受的条款。但几个小时后,就连这个最低限度的协议也在众议院变得岌岌可危。
All of which must leave many Americans asking a simple question: Why is this so hard?
这一切一定让许多美国人不解:为什么达成协议会这么难?
There are multiple reasons that even what seems easy is hard in Washington right now. The problems start, of course, with the basic polarization of not just Congress but the country. America is in an unusual political state, in which the two parties are quite evenly divided in power, but far apart ideologically.
一件看似简单的事如今在华盛顿却如此难以做到,这其中有很多原因。当然,所有问题的根源,是国会、甚至整个国家的两极化本质。美国目前正处在一个不同寻常的政治状态下,两党的权力基本上是均等的,但在意识形态上却迥然不同。
That makes governing difficult for Mr. Obama, but also for Mr. Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat. Because of the close division of power, neither side thinks it is required by the political calculus to give in to the other. Because of the wide ideological divide, neither side finds it easy to split the difference with the other.
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