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freshwest

(53,661 posts)
4. Yup. And the full WaPo link:
Tue Oct 8, 2013, 12:43 AM
Oct 2013
WHAT HAVE House Republicans managed to accomplish in a week of government shutdown?

Damage the livelihood of millions of Americans? Check. . . .

Waste billions of taxpayer dollars? Check. . . .

Interfere with key government operations? Check. . . .

Rattle the markets, slow an economy in recovery, interrupt potentially lifesaving research at the National Institutes of Health?

Check, check and check.

Derail the hated Obamacare?

Ch?.?.?. — oh, no, wait a minute . . .


http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-house-gop-has-nothing-to-show-for-its-government-shutdown/2013/10/07/69650016-2f66-11e3-bbed-a8a60c601153_story.html?hpid=z6

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/07/1245093/-Wash-Post-Editorial-Board-Republicans-Accomplished-Nothing-with-Shutdown-So-Far


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