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Cruz had this to say. I will continue to do anything i can to stop the train wreck that is obama care. Im not serve in office because i desperately needed 99 new friends in the u. S. Senate or really, any friends at all. As josh green writes, the wacko bird wing of the Republican Party is unlikely to back down any time soon. Quote, while the shutdown might look like spectacular selfimmolation of band or bitter enders its a better understood as the natural consequence of decades long shift in the american political landscape. Over the last century and especially since the mid 1970s congress has...

0 political scientists who studied this, they will tell you that the country has been undergoing a geographical and partisan sorting basically since the late 19th century that is especially sped up since the 1970s. so what you have is a polarized congress that can't seem to kind of bridge the chasm that really is the reason that john boehner can't marry his right ring with even moderate democrats. i argue in the piece that this is really the new normal. there isn't any reason to think that just because republicans got hammered during the shutdown that they are now going to back off and we're g...