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Just as House Speaker John Boehner was concluding a brief press conference on Monday afternoon—declaring that House GOPers would once again send to the Senate a bill funding the government that would block Obamacare, practically ensuring a government shutdown—I bumped…
CLEVELAND, Tenn. — “The premise was good,” said Bob McIntire, 53, an insurance executive here in deep red Bradley County, where the local Democrats would have trouble filling up a phone booth. The payoff, well, that was the problem. On…
After peddling their propaganda for decades, Rush Limbaugh couldn’t figure out any other way to spin the latest Republican shellacking after they shut down the government and tried to default on the nation’s debts. So the only other think Rush…
A new report called “The Cost of Crisis-Driven Fiscal Policy” is confirming what we all know, that self inflected wounds is not good for you. The report concludes that crisis-driven government and the resulting fiscal policy uncertainty has directly harmed the…
Since the Republican Government Shutdown ended its 16th day yesterday, everyone’s been asking the same question. Why? Why did Republicans shut down the government and took this country on what seemed to be a pointless adventure. Well the answers are…
The President: Last night I signed legislation to reopen our government and pay America’s bills. Because Democrats and responsible Republicans came together, the first government shutdown in 17 years is now over; the first default in more than 200 years…
John McCain and Rep Steve King have questioned their party’s decision to shut down the government following the instructions from first year Senator Ted Cruz. That wasn’t expected but it was good to see. When anyone from the most partisan…
The Teaparty’s attempt to make this nation bow down on all fours came to a crushing defeat tonight, as both Senate and the House voting to end the Republican induced government shutdown. And now this: the Teaparty favored candidate in…
Finally! After over two weeks of a Government Shutdown in which even Sen. John McCain admitted in a Fox News interview, was completely the GOP’s fault, the Republicans are going to relinquish their unpopular battle and vote on a Clean…
In the end, we got a terrible economic deal, but a nice political gift. Congress essentially kicked the problem down the road and ensured that early January would mark the beginning of other round of hostage-taking on the part of…
Mr. Dershowitz made an appearance on CNN with former New Mexico’s governor Bill Richardson, and he had some choice words for his former Harvard student, Ted Cruz. Speaking about the government shutdown and the looming breach of the Debt Ceiling,…