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Isaiah J. Poole, Campaign for America s Future: While the government shutdown has cost the US economy millions of dollars, there is much more at stake as the Tea Party holds our government hostage.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19462-the-cost-of-the-tea-party-shutdown-keeps-getting-higher



How the "Know Nothing" Press Extended the Shutdown

The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: What reason could the mainstream media possibly have for prolonging the government shutdown and prolonging the suffering of the American people? Money. And lots of it.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19480-how-the-know-nothing-press-extended-the-shutdown



What Was "Essential" and What Wasn't: The Government Shutdown in Perspective

Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford, TomDispatch: Let this be the last time we, as a nation, let our elected officials cut nutrition assistance for vulnerable children at the same moment that they protect deep tax loopholes for the wealthy and corporations.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19472-what-was-essential-and-what-wasnt-the-government-shutdown-in-perspective



The Right s Closed Information Loop May Set Up the Next Shut Down

Joshua Holland, Moyers & Company: Although the GOP has suffered a massive blow during the government shutdown, Tea Party members are still ready for "round two" come January.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19501-the-rights-closed-information-loop-may-set-up-the-next-shut-down



Right-Wing Ideology Run Wild

Lawrence Davidson, Consortium News: The Radical Right, reflecting the overlapping ideologies of Ayn Rand capitalists, Christian fundamentalists and neo-Confederate white supremacists, is set on crippling the federal government and humiliating the first African-American president. But the extremism could shatter the Republican Party.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19557-right-wing-ideology-run-wild



The Triumph of the Right

Robert Reich, Robert Reich s Blog: Conservative Republicans have lost their fight over the shutdown and debt ceiling. But they are winning the big one: How the nation understands our biggest domestic problem.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19576-the-triumph-of-the-right

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And So America s Skewed Democracy Lurches on Toward Its Next Crisis
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/17-4

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Race is Central to the Fear and Angst of the US Right

By Gary Younge

The shrinking white base of the Republican party cannot accept the country in which it now lives, so it shut it down.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36607.htm



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