When their elected representatives subsequently cannot muster two-thirds to raise taxes or cut another part of the budget, voters then profess shock at their incompetence.

当他们支持的议员们随后因未拉到三分之二的票数，导致増税案未能通过，或是削减了别的预算时，选民们便会对议员们的不称职感到震惊。

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To me, it appears that the best case that the Fed can muster for QE2 is that options markets suggest that investors cut their expectations of the odds of deflation from 40% before QE2 to 10% now.

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The United States was unable to muster a single additional vote for that candidate, the former president of El Salvador, and instead cut a deal to elect an anti-U.S. socialist from Chile as OAS chief.

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