Republican shutdown pain may boost Dems

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Washington (CNN) - Long before the ink had dried on the Senate deal to end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling, the writing was already on the wall for the Republican Party: The last three weeks have hurt them.

They have borne the brunt of the blame for shutting down the government, and polls show that a large majority of Americans disapprove of the way the Congressional GOP has handled the fight over funding the government and raising the debt ceiling.

Senate leaders announce deal to end shutdown and avoid default

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In an already historic display of incompetence, the Senate reaches a deal.
See if the Tea-Party-run GOP House can not commit politcal hari-kari and keep America open.

Obama: 'We Can't Make Extortion Routine As Part of Our Democracy' - NationalJournal.com

Obama: 'We Can't Make Extortion Routine As Part of Our Democracy' - NationalJournal.com 

That just about sums it up to a T. Americans get it. The GOP and Congress better get it real soon.
Pass a fucking budget bill and deal with legislation separately.

"A Corporate Trojan Horse": Obama Pushes Secretive TPP Trade Pact, Would Rewrite Swath of U.S. Laws | Democracy Now!

"A Corporate Trojan Horse": Obama Pushes Secretive TPP Trade Pact, Would Rewrite Swath of U.S. Laws | Democracy Now! 

This is horse shit. Corporate welfare gone amok, trumping the public interest. NOT ACCEPTABLE.

The only good news is a bunch of the other countries have basically said, "Basta! We are not going to roll back these things." So the reason there isn’t a deal is because a lot of the other countries are standing up to the worst of these U.S. corporate-inspired demands. You can see the whole lay of this at ExposeTheTPP, www.exposethetpp. There are fact sheets on each of the ways, each aspect of your life the TPP could affect. And if you want to get down into the weeds and have long papers explaining and/or information from other countries, you can go to tradewatch.org. That’s tradewatch.org. Between those two sets of information, you’ll see there’s almost no part of your life or the things you care about that this agreement couldn’t undermine. And again, trade is the least of it.