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- Tea party antics in Congress got you down? There's plenty of reason for optimism in the Free State.
- Fight over Obamacare and debt ceiling is rooted in a strong aversion to an African-American president
- The assumption that Americans will become accustomed to the Affordable Care Act may not pan out, given the way it's structured.
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- House Speaker John Boehner can secure his place in history if he strikes a deal with Democrats and leaves the tea party behind.
- Republicans are trying to make us so disgusted that we give up on politics.
- Obama should swallow his pride, negotiate with House GOP
- What House Speaker John Boehner calls an 'unconditional surrender' is actually a chance for the GOP to save the economy and restore the party's brand
- This Federal government shutdown is the latest antic by the Tea Party Republicans to achieve by sheer force what they did not achieve in the most recent national elections and cannot achieve by attempting to extort concessions
- The tea party probably doesn't realize how deeply at risk they're putting America.
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- Despite the GOP's attempts to muddy the waters, the American public realizes who's to blame for the mess in Washington.
- President Obama isn't taking a hard line with House Republicans, he's taking the only reasonable strategy available — getting them to put the 'gun' down first
- Three years after Citizens United, the U.S. Supreme Court appears ready to strip yet another good government reform from the books
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- A high school student contemplates Washington's gridlock
- There is no room to negotiate when extremists take the federal government hostage — and threaten to do the same to the economy
- Taking the federal government hostage is a temper tantrum too far
- Some public rule-bending Wednesday allowed veterans from across the country to visit memorials in their honor that were officially closed. Still, the coincidence of the veterans' excursion with the federal government shutdown brought a celebration of service face to face with government dysfunction.
- Shuttering the federal government is a costly, empty gesture aimed at Obamacare for which House Republicans should be ashamed
- Lawmakers in Congress were scrambling late Monday to settle on legislation to end the latest budget showdown even as federal agencies prepared to cut services and furlough hundreds of thousands of federal employees.