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applegrove

(118,677 posts)
Wed Oct 16, 2013, 06:19 PM Oct 2013

"32 Republicans Who Caused the Government Shutdown"

32 Republicans Who Caused the Government Shutdown

by 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 — there’s 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 OP
South HockeyMom Oct 2013 #1
It might be time for the Dept of Justice to act. Delmette Oct 2013 #2
Interestingly enough Turbineguy Oct 2013 #3
We should call them "Billion Dollar Babies" ! applegrove Oct 2013 #4
ASSHOLES Skittles Oct 2013 #5
They need to be excoriated daily from now until the mid-terms..... Historic NY Oct 2013 #6
Amash is just a sociopathic asshole.. they all are. Cha Oct 2013 #7
32 idiots sad-cafe Oct 2013 #8
opinions of their gerrymandered districts are NOT those of most of the country JI7 Oct 2013 #9
 

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)
1. South
Wed Oct 16, 2013, 06:24 PM
Oct 2013

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.
Wed Oct 16, 2013, 06:27 PM
Oct 2013

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.

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