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They blatantly took a stand against even the semblance of compassion for the constituents they represent - WASHINGTON, DC, Oct 4 – “Life isn’t fair and President Obama and the Senate Democrats who gave us Obamacare pressed the point this week. They adamantly refused to negotiate a compromise to keep the federal government open for business in exchange for a little time and effort to tweak a few unpalatable kinks in the Affordable Care Act,” Dan Weber, president of the Association of Mature American Citizens, commented. Weber said that “while there is plenty of blame to go around on Capitol...

Can there be a more fruitful source of dispute, or a kind of dispute more difficult to be settled? — James Madison speaking at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 on the spending bill battles between the House and Senate that would occur. As the “Government Shutdown” puppet show continues its run in Washington, D.C., there is power in the Constitution to close down the entire production. Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution requires that “all bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives, but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other bills.”...