The coalition makes us strung

At The Economist, 'Lexington' writes,

"Seen through foreign eyes, the current dysfunction within Congress is at once distinctively American and recognisable as a political crisis within a grand coalition: in essence the Tea Party is walking out on other members of the Republican alliance, whom you might call the Business Party, the National Security Party and the Christian Values Party."

While, as The Onion puts it, Boehner Hoping To Remain Leader Of Republican Parties.