Tea Partiers Want to Shut Government

Frank Rich, New York Times
NO one remembers anything in America, especially in Washington, so the history of the Great Government Shutdown of 1995 is being rewritten with impunity by Republicans flirting with a Great Government Shutdown of 2011. The bottom line of the revisionist spin is this: that 2011 is no 1995. Should the unthinkable occur on some coming budget D-Day — or perhaps when the deadline to raise the federal debt ceiling arrives this spring — the G.O.P. is cocksure that it can pin the debacle on the Democrats. Frank Rich In the...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/02/27/tea_partiers_want_to_shut_government_251167.html

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