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>> but when the votes were tallied, just one other so-called moderate, charlie dent of pennsylvania, voted with peter king. a dramatic win for the tea party that cleared the way for the shutdown. so much for the preservation caucus. but the government shutdown and the democrats pushing speaker boehner to bring a clean cr to the floor, the speaker pushed back. >> there are not the votes in the house to pass a clean cr. >> but according to whip counts from nbc news, "the washington post," and others, the speaker was dead wrong. "the huffington post" reported there were up to 29 republicans who f...

A dramatic win for the tea party that cleared the way for the shutdown. so much for the preservation caucus. but the government shutdown and the democrats pushing speaker boehner to bring a clean cr to the floor, the speaker pushed back. >> there are not the votes in the house to pass a clean cr. >> but according to whip counts from nbc news, "the washington post," and others, the speaker was dead wrong. "the huffington post" reported there were up to 29 republicans who favored ending the shutdown with no strings attached. >> it's called arithmetic. the votes are there. >> all 29 could have vo...

Tame blame for shutting the government down. but the so-called suicide caucus shouldn't take all the blame. the preservation caucus of self-described moderate republicans could have stopped the shutdown before it started. you see, on the eve of the shutdown, congressman peter king of new york waged revolt in the house. >> sort of a republican revolt on capitol hill with five hours to go until a possible partial government shutdown. >> spoken to some moderate house republicans, who are working as we speak to stage what effectively would be a revolt to try to stop their own party from passing th...

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