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Our Views: Fading Sax appeal
Chambliss bipartisan role alienated far right, where his successor likely will emerge
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As more Americans decry the lack of cooperation among leaders in Washington, D.C., that job gets more impossible by the day. Sharp differences in policy and honest ideological disagreements are natural in our political system, and are welcomed as part of the messy give-and-take needed to govern such a sprawling, diverse republic. But when those stark positions fail to budge an inch either way toward common ground, problems go unsolved and election cycles never end.