The U.S. government, which loves to lecture other countries on how to run their affairs, would do well in learning some lessons from other nations in order to avoid a repeat of last week’s costly — and embarrassing — government shutdown.
I know this is anathema to the right-wing Tea Party legislators who shut down the government and almost caused a U.S. debt default in their crusade to destroy President Obama’s healthcare law, but Washington could even get some valuable lessons from Mexico, the country that the Tea Party extremists love to hate.
Much like the United States, Mexico had long faced a seemingly terminal political paralysis that
