fareed zacaria is with us. >> let's be honest. the american system is designed to allow for easy gridlock. the founding fathers created a system fearing this. there are lots of different ways to veto stuff. i think that is part of the issue but really what is at work here is something much more dangerous. here we are getting into an, anti-democratic process. if you want to repeal obama care great, go for it. >> if you want to cut government spending that's great there is a procedure. what is happening here is because the tea party does not have the senate. what it is trying to do is extortion which is to say we will block everything if you don't give us this which we know we couldn't get through the democratic process normally. >> so when the number one concern near term and long-term concern should be about jobs, a new poll is showing that it is dysfunctional government, things have changed here. >> i was talking about investors. when they are worried about indonesia or banana republics we need to worry about political risk is th