Continuing Resolution, Continuing Dysfunction

The founding fathers left the country with a warning against the formation of political parties. They felt that political parties would be the death of the country, because instead of working for the good of the public, they continue to work for factional self-interest and deepen the ideological divides between two separate parties. Despite that, political parties took a strong root in the way that our entire government works, separating the bodies of Congress, the Senate, and presidential campaigns into Republican and Democratic parties. In recent light of events and failures for economic and social reform that was the responsibility of the government, David Firestone, writer for the New York Times, informs readers on the current standstill in the fiscal year and how the divide between political parties have prevented any substantial change. Firestone develops an effectively impatient tone to emphasize the lack of progress that Congress and the Senate have made.
Firestone is able to solicit the feeling of impatience in the audience because of the diction that he employs. Firestone writes, "Lawmakers - mostly Republicans - are using the legislation as an opportunity to score ideological points rather than simply do their basic jobs...don't expect anything but more disappointing C.R.'s..." The use of the words "rather than" combined with "simply" and "basic" alarm the readers of the politicians ineptitude. This is further built on by the author engaging the audience through sarcasm not to expect any real economic development and reform. The sarcasm he uses against both the progress in the bodies of government and against the politicians himself help to develop the impatient tone because he seems that he is angry and bitter that he has been expecting and waiting for Congress to get over their own ideological interests and do their part in fixing the economic crises  from even 2010 that continue to haunt America's fiscal policies.
Firestone also successfully expresses his impatience through his effective arrangement. Firestone juxtaposes different controversies and congressional response to them. For example, he lists all of the economic reforms that need to be done and then ridicules Paul Ryan for trying to undo the spending on Health Care reform rather than helping out other avenues of government spending. This continuing contrast between the need that the audience becomes aware of for real change and the politicians inability to recognize that helps for Firestone to express his impatience because he exemplifies social progress going out of control while political reform is at a standstill.
Firestone has effectively expressed to the audience that politicians these days are too concerned with their own parties interests rather than the fiscal and social reform that we have so long required. Firestone's ability to show to the audience the needs for cuts and budgeting and fiscal strategy will properly inform the audience of what flaws in congress they need to fix in the upcoming congressional election.