Government Shutdown – Delaware Liberal

Pulling Back the Curtain on GOP Intransigence

By cassandra_m October 7, 201356 Comments

The NYT Sunday provides great reporting on how the GOP developed a detailed plan to invoke this budget crisis just so they could derail Obamacare. Starting with a letter that called for keeping the sequester cuts AND for defunding Obamacare, the GOP has had a scorched earth plan in place to try to get their way for most of this year:

McConnell Breaks with House GOP

By nemski April 21, 20125 Comments

As President Obama threatens a government shutdown in September due to GOP duplicity, Senator Mitch McConnell (R - Kentucky) has decided to keep up his end of the bargin.