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From Bachmann, a persuasive case for why many Republicans don't fear a shutdown — Why have House Republicans pursued their effort to defund, and now to delay, Obamacare so relentlessly, even though they have almost zero chance of success in the face of a rapidly-approaching deadline for shutting down the government?
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his vorpal sword, Power Line and Connecting.the.Dots
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What The Republican ‘Compromise’ Of Delaying Obamacare For A Year Would Do To The Economy — Congress must pass a funding bill by Monday to keep the government operating after September 30. Despite the rapidly approaching deadline, House Republicans have doubled down on their strategy …
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Kevin McCarthy: House Will Send Third Volley to Senate if Reid Rejects Last Night's Bill — House GOP whip Kevin McCarthy said the House will send a third government-funding bill with “a few other options” if the Democratic-controlled Senate rejects the bill passed in the House last night, as expected.
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Here Comes the Shutdown: Three Reasons It Will Hurt the GOP — Uh oh! A House plan to delay Obamacare has put the government on the brink of a shutdown—for real this time. David Frum on why the infighting is sure to backfire on the Republicans. — The federal government swerved toward …
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The Hinterland Gazette, The Moderate Voice and Taegan Goddard's …
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House GOP Mulls CR with Vitter Amendment — House GOP insiders acknowledge a shutdown is increasingly likely, due to House conservatives' aversion to passing a “clean” continuing resolution that simply funds the government. But the leadership isn't ready to concede defeat, and …
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Business Insider, NationalJournal.com, Pat Dollard, Outside the Beltway, Yahoo! News, Talking Points Memo and Hit & Run
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McCarthy: ‘We are not shutting the government down’
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The Huffington Post:
House Budget Vote Passes In Favor Of New Obamacare Deal-Breaker, Shutdown Looms
House Budget Vote Passes In Favor Of New Obamacare Deal-Breaker, Shutdown Looms
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Crooks and Liars, PolicyMic and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
House sends stopgap back to Senate 48 hours before shutdown (Video)
House sends stopgap back to Senate 48 hours before shutdown (Video)
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Bfearnowcbs / CBS DC:
Shutdown Showdown Intensifies With ‘Obamacare’ Delay
Shutdown Showdown Intensifies With ‘Obamacare’ Delay
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
House Republican: Senate is ‘playing games’
House Republican: Senate is ‘playing games’
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Politico and The Heritage Foundation
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The House GOP's shutdown plan is great news
The House GOP's shutdown plan is great news
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The PJ Tatler, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Moderate Voice, Taegan Goddard's …, NPR and Power Line
Tamara Keith / NPR:
House Ties Government Funding To One-Year Obamacare Delay
House Ties Government Funding To One-Year Obamacare Delay
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Crooks and Liars and PoliticusUSA
Lisa Desjardins / CNN:
GOP adds ‘conscience clause’ to spending bill
GOP adds ‘conscience clause’ to spending bill
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Texas First Lady Calls Abortion 'A Woman's Right' — Texas first lady Anita Perry told an interviewer on Saturday that she thinks abortion is “a woman's right.” — Perry's husband, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), has helped push through a slew of laws restricting and eroding access to abortion in the state.
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Rick Perry's wife talks of abortion ‘right’ — AUSTIN, Texas — Anita Perry, wife of Gov. Rick Perry, said Saturday that abortion “could be a woman's right,” though she doesn't personally support that option. — “Yeah, that could be a women's right,” the first lady of Texas said of abortion …
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Ten states where Obamacare wipes out existing health care plans — President Barack Obama famously promised, “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.” He later got even more specific. — “If you are among the hundreds of millions of Americans who already …
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Bill Clinton defends Obama on debt ceiling — Former President Bill Clinton is defending President Barack Obama for refusing to negotiate with Republicans on the debt ceiling. — “I guess he could stop it, but the price of— the current price of stopping it is higher than the price …
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American Way: US debt ceiling debacle as Congress threatens to go nuclear
American Way: US debt ceiling debacle as Congress threatens to go nuclear
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Not Raising the Debt Ceiling: A Crisis, If We're Lucky, a Historical Calamity If We're Not — If we don't raise the debt limit, we know we would get mega-austerity and maybe a new financial crisis. But just how bad could it get? — “You know I'm not delaying Obamacare, right?” “You sure?
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Taegan Goddard's …, The Other McCain and The Volokh Conspiracy
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Broken Windows, Broken States — Last week TPM hosted a rooftop party atop our DC office to celebrate the launch of our new publishing platform and the relaunch of TPMPrime. There I got a chance to meet Jamelle Bouie, one of several young journalists whose work I admire greatly but who I hadn't yet had a chance to meet in person.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif: Holocaust a ‘Heinous Crime’ and a ‘Genocide’ — In an exclusive interview this morning on “This Week,” Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif condemned the Holocaust as a “heinous crime” and a “genocide,” dismissing as a poor translation the appearance of the word …
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