Shutdown in the Media

A couple of interesting pieces out today from Aljazeera America and the New Republic. First, Noam Scheiber’s Fox observations at the New Republic: Conservatives Have Already Lost Control of the Shutdown Narrative My headline,: Emoprogs Do Republican/Fox Bidding (my emphasis): “… Republicans had exactly one hope for weathering the shutdown fight:…

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VIDEO: John Boehner’s message to furloughed federal workers: “………”

During a press conference on Tuesday morning, Speaker John Boehner was asked by a reporter asked if he had a message to the 800,000 federal workers who are now out of work as a result of the Republican shutdown of the federal government. In response to the question, Speaker Boehner…

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Thanks to Republican govt. shutdown, children with cancer denied treatment

Yeah, House Republicans sure are a bunch of “compassionate Christians.” At the National Institutes of Health, nearly three-quarters of the staff was furloughed. One result: director Francis Collins said about 200 patients who otherwise would be admitted to the NIH Clinical Center into clinical trials each week will be turned…

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