Congress always swings the pendulum too far in the opposite direction in reaction to these sorts of things.

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As Congresswoman Giffords is a Democrat, fresh off a highly combative and nasty congressional race with a Tea Party backed candidate, the first reaction of many liberals will be to point a finger in the direction of the Tea Party.

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However, perhaps as an over-reaction to such failures, the pendulum swung far too extremely in the direction of a centralized bureaucracy in Washington, DC, where there is no stock exchange, no meaningful business center, and little more than the corrupting influence of lobbyists.

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