Government's in Gridlock!

"'The founding fathers didn't really expect there to be political parties,' said Columbia University provost Alan Brinkley, 'and they thought that governance would proceed through consensus. But it didn't take long for political parties to emerge.'
"A professor of history, Brinkley says gridlock characterizes the way Congress acts more often than not in its history."

Martha Teichner on CBS's Sunday Morning program reports on the problem of extreme partisanship.