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Wiretap: The Tea Party shutdown has arrived

Three years of squabbling, name-calling, obstruction, rank bitterness and lost elections later, the Tea Party has finally brought its government shutdown to the people.

Shutdown looms: Everyone loses, but some lose more than others

Obama's show of backbone changes the stakes in the government shutdown game. If Republicans don't get the new rules, we could be in for a long siege.

Krugman vs. Kristol on Obamacare: Professor by TKO

Paul Krugman explains to Bill Kristol everything Kristol doesn't know about Obamacare in an exchange on ABC's This Week. Be patient. It could take a while.

‘Uninsurables’ look forward to Obamacare exchanges

DENVER -- Vicki Tosher, now 61, knows a lot about cancer. She has survived two kinds of breast cancer and she was a University of Colorado researcher in cancer prevention. She lost her job in 2009, and 18 months later, she lost her health insurance.

Capitol Hill spectacular nothingness

The strangest thing about the government shutdown/debt ceiling fights - which are really the same fight, separated only by dates on the calendar -- is that they are about nothing.

What was that something Ted Cruz just finished doing in the...

Am I confused? The Senate voted 100-0 to pick up debate. That's 21 hours, 19 minutes to get exactly no votes.

Wiretap: The Boulder rains-and-flood tick-tock story

"'We're doing OK,' for annual rainfall, said National Weather Service meteorologist Jim Kalina." Boulder County needed rain. Then 9.08 inches fell in 24 hours. And then came more.

Eye on the Delegation: Defund Obamacare or shutdown the gov’t?

Friday morning, House Republicans voted again nearly unanimously to defund Obamacare, this time as part of a short-term spending bill necessary to keep government offices open and government services running.

Littwin: Republican mission creep on Obamacare

This is a difficult period for many Democrats. They don't know quite what to do.

As Obamacare exchanges set to launch, 48 million remain uninsured

As the Affordable Care Act's insurance exchanges ramp up for the fast-approaching October 1 launch date, the Census Bureau reports that about a million Americans found coverage, mostly moving to government programs, and that 48 million remain uninsured.
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