The Shutdown in 10 Infuriating Sentences
| Fri Oct. 4, 2013
At its core, the dispute over the budget and the debt ceiling isn't complicated at all. But it is full of misconceptions and urban myths. Here are the 10 facts worth remembering past all the obfuscation:
- Democrats have already agreed to fund the government at Republican levels.
- Despite what you might have heard, there have only been two serious government shutdowns in recent history, and both were the result of Republican ultimatums.
- Democrats in the Senate have been begging the House to negotiate over the budget for the past six months, but Republicans have refused.
- That's because Republicans wanted to wait until they had either a government shutdown or a debt ceiling breach as leverage, something they've been very clear about all along.
- Republicans keep talking about compromise, but they've offered nothing in return for agreeing to their demands—except to keep the government intact if they get their way.
- The public is very strongly opposed to using a government shutdown to stop Obamacare.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/10/shutdown-debt-ceiling-explained
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