A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning


That great bastion of conspiracy theories, The New York Times, has the article A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning.

To many Americans, the shutdown came out of nowhere. But interviews with a wide array of conservatives show that the confrontation that precipitated the crisis was the outgrowth of a long-running effort to undo the law, the Affordable Care Act, since its passage in 2010 — waged by a galaxy of conservative groups with more money, organized tactics and interconnections than is commonly known.
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“They’ve been hugely influential,” said David Wasserman, who tracks House races for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. “When else in our history has a freshman member of Congress from North Carolina been able to round up a gang of 80 that’s essentially ground the government to a halt?”

This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who is paying attention.  Perhaps the people who think both sides are equally to blame may be surprised by this.

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