Frank Rich: The Furies Never End

[Iwillnevergiveup]

http://nymag.com/news/frank-rich/government-shutdowns-2013-10/

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"The present-day anti-government radicals in Congress, and the Americans who voted them into office, are in the minority, but they are a permanent minority that periodically disrupts or commandeers a branch or two of the federal government, not to mention the nation’s statehouses. Their brethren have been around for much of our history in one party or another, and with a constant anti-­democratic aim: to thwart the legitimacy of a duly elected leader they abhor, from Lincoln to FDR to Clinton to Obama, and to resist any laws with which they disagree. So deeply rooted are these furies in our national culture that their consistency and tenacity should be the envy of other native political movements."

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[DJ13]

1. "The present-day anti-government radicals in Congress...."

Nothing smells like bullshit more than anti-government government employees.

[Laelth]

2. Interesting. k&r n/t

-Laelth