What happens when an irresistible force meets an unmovable object?
The question, of course, is an old paradox that doesn’t have an answer. In the US this week, however, we’ve been seeing something that approximates this puzzle, played out in political terms. What happens when a persuasive Democrat in the White House meets a strategically weak Republican Speaker of the House?
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