Tuesday, October 8, 2013

government shutdown stakes

[T]his battle represents something new. House Republicans are blocking the budget not because they object to its contents, but because they object to something else entirely: Barack Obama's health-care reform....

If a party with such a modest electoral mandate threatens to shut down government unless the other side repeals a law it does not like, apparently settled legislation will always be vulnerable to repeal by the minority....

From The Economist: No Way to Run a Country
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