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Daniel TilsonOctober 20, 2013

Although Florida’s Republican U.S. House contingent voted 10-6 against ending the shutdown and raising the debt ceiling, a cooler overall collection of bipartisan heads prevailed last week in averting national default and reopening the American government. The full House vote was 285 in favor of raising the debt ceiling and ending the shutdown, and 144 […]

Guest AuthorOctober 16, 2013

On behalf of rational thinking people everywhere, I would like to call for a formal and official end to the news media and societal malpractice of false equivalence. The government shutdown was never about two equally aggrieved sides trying to find common ground. Certainly this is evident as the bipartisan Senate accord to reopen the […]

Guest AuthorOctober 14, 2013

I truly do not understand the reasons behind the current shutdown of our government. It seems that the only species that actually attacks one of their own is man, but that usually involves crime and war. So are the Republicans in the House at war with the people in the United States? It seems that […]

Daniel TilsonOctober 10, 2013

Now that President Obama has rightfully rejected the “deal” offered by House Tea Partiers — a six-week debt ceiling extension in exchange for presidential “negotiation” (give-ins) to get them to reopen the government — the two-ton elephant in the national living room remains their unwillingness to admit the shutdown hand they’ve played has failed, and […]

Guest AuthorOctober 3, 2013

One yard is only three feet, about the length of one step for an average-sized man. According to my 11.2 seconds of careful Internet research, we take about 7,500 of those a day, so no one of them is likely to be all that meaningful or memorable. Now, think about that same yard in the […]

Tag: shutdown

Daniel Tilson: Holding Florida congressional shutdown supporters accountable

Ben Kirby: The shutdown debate that wasn’t: This was not about two sides

Dava Stein: America is hurting its own

Daniel Tilson: Time to give Tea Party shutdown showboats a time-out

Jim McClellan: In politics, the longest yard is between the aisles