As difficult as the debt limit debate is now, I'm grateful for our American two-party system. Can you imagine how awful it would be under a parliamentary system in which very small minority parties had representation in the legislature? In close votes, all the ties would be broken by the handful of lunatics in the Communist Party or the Nazi Party or whatever minor bunch of crazies happened to span the median voter.
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