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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"32 Republicans Who Caused the Government Shutdown"
32 Republicans Who Caused the Government Shutdownby Svati Kirsten Narula, Ryan Jacobs and Judith Ohikuare at the Atlantic.com
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/32-republicans-who-caused-the-government-shutdown/280236/
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So who are those hardliners? To compile this list, we started with a roster that the Senate Conservatives Fund, a group aligned with Ted Cruz, created of representatives who were allied with them. We cross-checked it with the list of members who signed an August letter by Rep. Mark Meadows demanding that Boehner use a shutdown as a threat to defund Obamacare, and against other public statements this week. It's not a comprehensive roll theres no official wacko bird caucus that keeps a register but it's a window into the small but powerful group of men and women in the House of Representatives who brought the federal government to a standstill.
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Representative: Justin Amash
Home District: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Quoted: President Obama and Senator Reid refuse to negotiate over giving regular Americans the same breaks they give themselves, government workers, and big business.
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"32 Republicans Who Caused the Government Shutdown" (Original Post)
applegrove
Oct 2013
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HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)1. South
The majority, with a sprinking of MidWest, are from the Deep South. Hey, guys, you not only lost this one, you also lost the CIVIL WAR, more than a hundred years ago. No, the South is not going to rise again.
Delmette
(522 posts)2. It might be time for the Dept of Justice to act.
I think that this is the best time for the Department of Justice to start writing arrest warrants for conspiracy to commit treason. Let's start the Boehner and end with Limbaugh. There might be a hundred names on that list. There is tons of evidence including news videos.
Turbineguy
(37,392 posts)3. Interestingly enough
their shutdown did about $1 billion per person damage to the economy....
applegrove
(118,880 posts)4. We should call them "Billion Dollar Babies" !
Skittles
(153,261 posts)5. ASSHOLES
Historic NY
(37,458 posts)6. They need to be excoriated daily from now until the mid-terms.....
to serve as a reminded.
Cha
(297,935 posts)7. Amash is just a sociopathic asshole.. they all are.
thanks applegrove~
sad-cafe
(1,277 posts)8. 32 idiots
is what they should be known as forever more
JI7
(89,283 posts)9. opinions of their gerrymandered districts are NOT those of most of the country