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For their part, Republicans are trying to set themselves up as the ones who can tackle the tough issues of leading Washington through the economic recovery and bringing down debts and deficits over the long term. To voters, though, it might sound like the typical Washington back-and-forth, not adult behavior at all. Yet perhaps for a politician the only thing worse than not acting like an adult, is acting like one, said Jack Pitney, a politics professor at Claremont McKenna College in Southern California. "Most people would agree that politicians should act like adults by making tough choices even when they are unpopular. So it's popular for politicians to say that they'll do the unpopular thing. But when they actually do the unpopular thing, they are ... unpopular," Pitney said. "The lessons of adulthood are seldom happy ones."
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