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Showing posts with label government shutdown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label government shutdown. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Reuters — Trump: 'I don't see a deal' with Democrats on keeping government open

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Here we go again. Reuters Trump: 'I don't see a deal' with Democrats on keeping government open Reuters Staff So there! ...
Friday, December 9, 2016

Alexander Bolton — Senate Dems hold out on spending deal, risking shutdown

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Shoe now on the other foot. Senate Democrats are holding out on backing a bill to keep the government funded through April 28, risking a ...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Jon Perr — Economists Warn of GOP Threat to U.S. Economy

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Add to all this that a weak economy likely benefits the GOP in 2016. PERRspectives Economists Warn of GOP Threat to U.S. Economy Jon Perr...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Joe Firestone — Return of the Coin?

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The last few weeks have seen at least two posts calling attention to the potential use of the platinum coin in America's political econ...
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Thursday, December 11, 2014

My podcast for Thursday, Dec 11

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Today I talk about a possible government shutdown. How any Continuing Resolution does not solve the debt ceiling issue and why that's ...
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Friday, August 29, 2014

Simon Maloy — What their next shutdown will really be about

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Yes, they are going to do it again, because — Obama. Republicans know shutdowns are toxic, but that doesn't mean they won't do o...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

Andy Sullivan — Tea Party Republicans Backed By Big Corporate Players Following Shutdown

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Snake pit. The Huffington Post Tea Party Republicans Backed By Big Corporate Players Following Shutdown Andy Sullivan | Reuters
Saturday, October 26, 2013

David Ferguson — Cruz lashes out at Senate GOP over shutdown failure (via Raw Story )

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Cruz lashes out at Senate GOP over shutdown failure (via Raw Story ) In remarks to an Iowa Republican group on Friday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

Shadee Ashtari — Ted Cruz Doesn't Rule Out Another Government Shutdown: 'I Would Do Anything'

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the man who led the charge on the 16-day government shutdown by tying government funding provisions to defunding t...

John T. Harvey — Five Things The Shutdown Taught Us About Trying To Balance The Budget

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The government just underwent a reduction in spending for sixteen days. What did we learn about how that affects the economy? Forbes Five ...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Mehdi Hasan — The World Is Laughing At The United States Over The Government Shutdown

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Not a laughing matter. "Civilisations," wrote the legendary English historian of empire [Arnold Toynbee], "die from suicide...

Ian Millhiser — Read This One Document If You Want To Understand Why Republicans Followed Ted Cruz Off A Cliff

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Conservative Evangelicals and Tea Party classical liberals are sure that this is the endgame for them, and they are convinced that if they ...
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David Edwards — GOP House members sing Christian hymn ‘Amazing Grace’ before pushing to derail Senate deal (via Raw Story )

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GOP House members sing Christian hymn ‘Amazing Grace’ before pushing to derail Senate deal (via Raw Story ) Before pushing an alternati...
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Saturday, October 12, 2013

Ben Jacobs — This Loophole Can End the Government Shutdown

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President Obama could overrule one obscure opinion from Jimmy Carter’s attorney general—and reopen the government himself. The Daily Beast...
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Lisa Lambert — Federal funding in limbo, U.S. states weigh paying for programs

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As the battle in Congress over the U.S. budget grinds on, states say they may soon have to choose between putting their own dollars into fe...

Stephen Rosenfeld — Will Obama Abandon Tens of Millions of Seniors to Get a Budget Deal with Right-Wing Republicans?

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It appears that the GOP’s price for reopening government and raising the debt limit is for Obama to “seriously consider,” as Cole said, an ...
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California State Controller: Revenue and Spending Tracking Budget, Warns on impact from Shutdown

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The 4+ year drag from the cutbacks at the state and local governments levels are mostly over. However the Federal government shutdown coul...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

John Harvey — Debt Ceiling Theatrics

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What we are witnessing in Washington is a travesty. A small group of Republicans is holding our economy hostage. As usual, the casualties w...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Kevin Drum — The Weird Politics of Republican Hostage Taking

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Here's the weird part: The (relative) moderates want to rely on the debt ceiling for leverage, even though breaching the debt ceiling w...
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Bill Mitchell — if they had another brain it would be lonely

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There is growing evidence that the US Republicans are now an extremist party with a substantially tenuous grip on reality. They clearly do ...