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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Thu Nov 14, 2013, 09:41 AM Nov 2013

The War Within

Instead, it was the close-quarters throwdown within the GOP—a fight in the House Republican Conference between the party’s centrists and its vocal Tea Party activists—that illuminates both why the shutdown happened and what it will mean for a Republican Party at war with itself. It is a narrative best told Rashomon-style, as a story of wildly divergent tellings—and ultimately as an expression of the Republican Party’s all-encompassing identity crisis.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/11/war-within-shutdown-tea-party-robert-draper-99378.html#ixzz2kcwV6eEl


Interesting......

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The War Within (Original Post) UCmeNdc Nov 2013 OP
The unifying factor among GOPers nowadays is... nikto Nov 2013 #1
Great read. Fair warning to Democrats. Two quotes that typify the abyss... libdem4life Nov 2013 #2
 

nikto

(3,284 posts)
1. The unifying factor among GOPers nowadays is...
Thu Nov 14, 2013, 06:10 PM
Nov 2013

To be persistently EVIL and destructive against America.














It's fucking true.

 

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
2. Great read. Fair warning to Democrats. Two quotes that typify the abyss...
Thu Nov 14, 2013, 07:07 PM
Nov 2013

“Here’s the deal, and I don’t need you to pray about this. I need you to tell me who’s yes and who’s no.”

and ...

"Nancy Pelosi wasn’t worried when she passed Obamacare—she knew she could potentially lose the majority, but she believed in it and fought for it and sacrificed a lot of her members in the process."

That's why I'm a Democrat.

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