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Majority Leader Harry Reid took to the Senate floor and issued a battle cry for all Democrats,
‘We’re not going to bow to Tea Party anarchists who deny the mere fact that Obamacare is the law.’

Sen. Reid (D-NV) gave John Boehner and his House Republicans two choices. Republicans can
accept a funding bill that doesn’t defund Obamacare, or they can shutdown the government.
Reid said, “We will not bow to Tea Party anarchists who refuse to accept that the Supreme
Court ruled that Obamacare is constitutional.”

Quoted from Henry

I don't know anyone who is afraid of a government shutdown, once people hear
that the military, defense, border security is not effected they could care less.

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Sen. Ted Cruz on Sunday warned Senate Republicans that refusing to filibuster a bill
that defunds President Barack Obama’s health care reform law “is a vote for Obamacare,”
and he also advised House Republicans to “shut down the military” if they had to.

Quoted from Henry

A warning with nothing to back it box, the military and other main functions of the government will not be effected.

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I hope that there isn't a shutdown,
But,
In the long run, a US gov't shutdown may be a good thing.  It will speed the demise of the TeaBaggin
Republicans into oblivion.  

Quoted from Henry

Or it will show how useless the government actually is and people will go on like every other day without noticing anything different.

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I don't know anyone who is afraid of a government shutdown, once people hear that the military, defense, border security is not effected they could care less.

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The latest findings released Monday by Pew Research Center found 71 percent of tea party
Republicans want lawmakers who share their views to stand by their principles even if doing
so leads to a government shutdown. Only 20 percent of tea partiers said they want those
lawmakers to compromise, even if it leads to a budget with which they disagree.

Republicans in general were more divided, but a plurality — 49 percent — still said they would
rather have their lawmakers stand by their principles rather than compromise.

Those views separate the GOP from both their Demcratic counterparts and the country as a
whole. According to Pew, 57 percent of all Americans would prefer lawmakers who share their
views to compromise, while only a third said they'd prefer them to stand by their principles
even if it shut down the government.

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Americans by a wide margin oppose shutting down the government or defaulting
on the national debt in order to force the defunding of Obamacare, according to a new poll.

The CNBC All-America Economic Survey found 59 percent of respondents opposed those
scenarios, with only 19 percent supporting. Another 18 percent were unsure.

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