“When the country’s governors gather twice each year, they delight in excoriating Washington’s political gridlock, holding themselves up as champions of a brand of can-do bipartisanship that is far too scarce in the nation’s capital,” the New York Times reports.
“The summer meeting of the National Governors Association here this weekend was no different. But behind the self-congratulatory rhetoric about attaining results and making tough decisions is an inescapable fact of political life: The same divisions that have stymied policy making in Congress are increasingly evident in the ranks of the governors.”

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