- Bleak House—"The concerted effort backed by some of the richest men in this country to deprive poor Americans of the chance to get health insurance may be without precedent for sheer malice."
- Chris Hedges: Let's Get This Class War Started—"If we had paid attention to history we might understand the imperative of battling the rich."
- Cut food subsidies for wealthy CEOs, not needy families—"The House is keen on cutting food stamps, but it turns a blind eye to corporate tax deductions."
- How the Billionaires' Shadow Government Works
- Examining the state of the middle class and the "American dream"
- Bernie Sanders: The Playboy Interview—"Independent senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont talks economics, avoiding foreign wars, politics."
- Why lies about Obama resist the truth WaPo
- Dick Durbin Stands By House GOP Quote—"Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) is sticking with his story that a House GOP leader told President Obama 'I cannot even stand to look at you.'"
- White House National Security Staffer Fired For Insulting, Anonymous Tweets
- These Village enablers have a lot of nerve ...
- Republicans, It's Time to Face Facts: The Right-Wing Media is Lying to You
- AP fires Bob Lewis, shocks Virginia—Last week, Bob Lewis was suspended for his McAuliffe flub. Politico
- Matt Damon reads from Howard Zinn's speech "The Problem is Civil Obedience"
- The shutdown-showdown postmortem: What changed in Washington and what didn't WaPo
- The Shutdown Was Not a Failed Strategy. It Wasn't a Strategy at All
- Lew: Lessons From a Crisis—"We should never again take this country to the point of near-default in order to exact political gain." NYT
- Steve Buscemi: 'I hope people remember the shutdown in the next elections'
- Pew Poll: 19 Percent Trust Government
- Poll: Major damage to GOP after shutdown, and broad dissatisfaction with government
- CNN Poll: 75% say most Republicans in Congress don't deserve re-election
- Most Americans say GOP House majority is a bad thing WaPo
- Poll: 63% of Americans want Boehner out as speaker
- Former Sen. Trent Lott: Republicans should pivot towards a positive agenda
- The GOP's narcissism problem—"Most Republicans think GOP congressional members are more interested in themselves than they are in serving the country." WaPo
- Business as Usual: The Republicans Are Still Winning—"House Republicans have suffered a huge tactical defeat of their own devising. But in a larger sense the Republicans are winning, and have been for the past three years, if not the past thirty. On economic-policy matters they are setting the terms."
- Reich: The Triumph of the Right
- Republicans Don't Really Care About Reducing America's Debt
- The GOP Hates Its Best Strategist
- Fiscal Crisis Sounds the Charge in G.O.P.'s 'Civil War'—"The confrontation between Tea Party conservatives and establishment Republicans will play out in the coming Congressional and presidential primaries in 2014 and 2016." NYT
- Republicans blame each other after shutdown fiasco
- Repubs need to say Tea Party is over
- Texas Judge Quits GOP Over Social Issues, Shutdown
- Big business faces uphill battle against tea party interests
- Selling Republican Shares Urged by Trucking Group
- Republican All About Building Roads Incurs Tea Party Ire
- History tricked the Tea Party—"If only they knew where their ideas came from." Salon
- Tea Party Spoiling for a Bigger Fight—"Though the political consensus is that Ted Cruz and Tea Party members in the House harmed their brand grievously, the budget battle may have only whetted the appetite of activists for more confrontation." NYT
- Ted Cruz faults his party for agreeing to 'lousy' deal to reopen the government—With no hint of irony, he claims, "I don't want a shutdown, I repeatedly voted to open the government."
- Cruz Is Unapologetic as Republicans Criticize Shutdown
- Jeb Bush to Ted Cruz: 'Have a little bit of self-restraint'
- House tea partiers snub GOP in 2014 Politico
- Sen. Mike Lee Takes Heat At Home Over Shutdown—"The campaign to defund the Affordable Care Act may have endeared him to the tea party, but Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) is facing an increasingly disgruntled constituency at home for his leading role in the quixotic effort that led to the government shutdown and brought the United States close to default."
- Mississippi Tea Party Senate Challenger Attended Neo-Confederate Gatherings
- Congressman Alan Grayson Suggests a Burning Cross for Tea Party Logo—How apropos.
- Stop blaming the tea party. It's the moderate Republicans' fault. WaPo
- Washington's open secret: Profitable PACs—"Most Americans believe it's illegal for politicians to profit from their public office but, as Steve Kroft reports, that's not the case."
- At the PSC, a confederacy of yes men — and women—"The first thing we do is pass a truth-in-government law that changes the name of the Florida Public Service Commission to the Florida Utility Suckup Club."
- On tape, Gov. LePage justifies cutting taxes for millionaires with wildly inaccurate claim
- Wisconsin passes a $100 million tax cut in just four days WaPo
- Privatization Benefits the 1%, While Public Services Benefit Everyone
- IRS paid more than $110B in improper tax credits
- New York is Drowning in Bribes and Corruption
- Ted Cruz Failed To Disclose Ties To Caribbean Holding Company
- Judge in Landmark Case Disavows Support for Voter ID—Judge Richard A. Posner said the repercussions were unclear in 2007 when he ruled in favor of an Indiana law that the Supreme Court would also uphold." NYT
- Another foolhardy GOP bid to suppress voter turnout—"Republican officials in two states are yet again trying to subvert democracy." WaPo
- TN Supreme Court upholds voter ID law, says it's not an undue burden
- Virginia Judge Rejects Request To Reinstate Purged Voter Rolls
- NC Gov.: State Atty General Should Keep Opinion On Voter ID Quiet
- Gore Says Money Influence in Politics Hacked Democracy
- Politicians' Extortion Racket—"A legal shakedown to extract campaign contributions." NYT
- How The Texas GOP Is Waging A Hidden War On Women Voters
- Voter ID Law May Cause Problems for Women Using Maiden Names
- When the war on voting meets the war on women
- Race is central to the fear and angst of the US right—"The shrinking white base of the Republican party cannot accept the country in which it now lives – so it shut it down."
- KKK - the invisible empire is alive and well in Virginia
- Barneys busted student for 'shopping while black'
- I was an ObamaCare guinea pig—"We've suffered through four years of outlandish attacks against ObamaCare -- that it will kill our grandmothers, or at least just kill our economy. But the fact is that ObamaCare has created a private marketplace so that millions of American families like mine can get affordable, quality health insurance while keeping more of our hard-earned money. Ideologues may not like ObamaCare, but my wallet and my family's health sure do."
- How the Kochs Are Actually Attacking Obamacare: In the States
- Howard Dean: 'You Gotta Blame' The GOP For Some Of Obamacare's Glitches—"[T]hey delayed everything they possibly could, threw as many monkey wrenches into the process as they could...."
- Ted Cruz's Wife Confirms He's Covered Under Her Blue-Chip Health Plan
- Idaho Governor Faces Primary for Not Nullifying Obamacare
- Opinion: Why Not Medicaid For All?—"Getting down to bedrock in the great health care debate." NYT
- Poll: ObamaCare approval ticking up
- Obamacare website woes: another sign of out-of-control private contractors—"The Obama team outsourced Healthcare.gov to big corporations that rang up large bills without delivering what they promised."
- White House Planning To Line Up Obamacare Enrollment Deadlines
- How the Healthcare.gov Failure Will Morph Into Obamacaregate
- Sorry, but Obamacare is not President Obama's 'Iraq war'—"The media was quick to declare the Iraq war a success when it wasn't. Now reporters can't wait to label Obamacare a disaster."
- Democratic Congressman To Obama: 'Man Up' And Fire Someone For Obamacare Rollout
- Healthcare.gov is a disaster. Obamacare is just fine.
- Why Obamacare Will Work (on Its Own Terms)
- Medicare Had Messy Rollout, Too
