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Tea Party Forces Government Shutdown With Obamacare Revolt; How Will it Impact Ordinary Americans?
The U.S. government has begun a partial shutdown for the first time in 17 years after Congress failed to break a partisan deadlock by a midnight deadline.

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Congressional Republicans Violate Their Oath of Office
Republicans are shirking their sworn duty by both shutting down the government and threatening to default on its bills.

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Crazy Like Foxes
One of the major misunderstandings of this budget mess is that it's about Republicans just running around willy-nilly screaming “nonononono” like toddlers having a temper tantrum. I know it …

Five Ways the Government Shutdown Hurts Women Most
Despite Republicans insistance that Democrats are “focused on birth control and sex rather than making sure the government doesn't shut down,” it's becoming clear that women will be harmed …

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Conservatives Celebrate Shutdown of Government They Hate
Republicans are exercising the one power that the American People have not yet been able to take away from them: the power to destroy.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership: We Won’t Be Fooled by Rigged Corporate Trade Agreements
The trade agreement President Obama will be urging this week be passed on a fast track that will not give Congress time to read and study it, the Trans …

On the News With Thom Hartmann: For the First Time in 17 Years, Our Government Is Officially Shut Down, and More
For the first time in 17 years, our government is officially shut down.

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Government Shutdown … Brought to You by Citizens United
Republicans, instead of working with Democrats to find a bipartisan middle road for the country, as they have traditionally done, have to compromise with and do the bidding of …

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Republicans Win Standoff, Shoot Hostages Anyway
In the end, the Republicans won. A majority in Congress, made up of Republicans who understood they'd won and Democrats who feared a government shutdown, would have voted for …

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William Rivers Pitt | The Fundraising Message That Ate America
We are smack dab in the middle of the most irrational, damaging, stupid, reckless, feckless fundraising drive in the history of currency.