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Their goal is to punish, at all costs...and blame it on the Repubs. Don't think it will work this time.

Government shutdown: Harry Reid spearheads Democratic strategy (refuse to negotiate)

When the president considered sitting down with the four congressional leaders in the White House ahead of the deadline to avert a government shutdown, Reid privately urged Obama to call off the meeting, according to several people familiar with the situation. Reid believed that it would amount to nothing more than a photo-op that would give the false impression that a serious negotiation was occurring, even warning he wouldn’t attend such a session. Obama scrapped it.

As Washington barrels forward to the first government shutdown in 17 years on Tuesday, the wily Reid has taken the lead role in pushing a hardball Democratic legislative strategy that can be summed up like this: Make the Republicans cave.
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Bob Woodward: If Shutdown or Debt Ceiling Causes Economic Crisis, It’s on the ‘President’s Head’
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Obama Inc. to Deny Cancer Treatments by Redefining What “Cancer” Is

The death panels aren’t going to come through the front door. They’re going to sneak up on you from behind with piano wire.