Can Someone Please Tell Congress to Stop the Madness?

By Donna L. Brazile
Roll Call Contributing Writer

April 26, 2005, 12 a.m.

At the end of one of my favorite movies, “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” the doctors simply say “madness.” Just as madness was the running theme of the movie, recent public polls indicate that it aptly describes the obscene level of partisanship in American politics today.

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