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Republicans
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Washington’s Warring Brothers
This month's battles over the budget and the Tea Party Republicans' fanaticism about the health care law obscure the two parties' common commitment to austerity.
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Eight Reasons Democrats Should Refuse a Shutdown “Grand Bargain“
The GOP's trying to solve the problem it has created for itself by offering the administration something they both seem to want: Social Security cuts, and perhaps benefit reductions …
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Let Go of the Car, Mr. Speaker
Republicans in Congress are like a dog that chases cars and finally catches one. There is a fleeting sense of accomplishment, followed by sheer panic.
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The GOP’s Shutdown Tab: $1 Billion Dollars and Counting
The GOP's federal shutdown is on the verge of becoming the most fiscally irresponsible gesture in modern political history.
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William Rivers Pitt | Half the Republicans You Know Are Insane
William Rivers Pitt: The crazy will elect the crazy every single time; that's why the government is shut down, and a disastrous default looms, in case you were wondering.
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There Is No Such Thing as the Tea Party; There Is Only a Collection of Billionaires
To paraphrase Margaret Thatcher, there is no such thing as the Tea Party. There is only a collection of individual billionaires.
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 …
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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.