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Duffy. they had a huge impact in the 2011 debt ceiling goes, actually, they created the idea of debt ceiling goes, of threatening to hold up the full faith and credit of the united states unless the white house granted massive successions. they were symbolic before 2011. no one threatened an actual default. no one dared to threaten an actual default. in 2011, the tea party decides to make this a bargaining chip. barak let them do it. they wanted to negotiate over the debt ceiling. he negotiates over the debt ceiling with them. then the negotiations blow up. the default deadline draws perilousl...

They just held the president up over it and got away with it. theying in is what they get to do every time the debt ceiling comes up. that's the backdrop for what's happening right now. this morning, we're entering the fifth day the first government shutdown in nearly 18 years. it happened because john boehner's house republicans kept taking, kept passing measures that would fund the government and attaching to them provisions that would gut president obama's signature achievement, it's the health care law. obama called their bluff so here we are. there is another dead lean coming up. it's com...

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