House Speaker John Boehner just wanted to sneak out of the White House for a smoke. But President Barack Obama pulled him aside for a grilling. Obama wanted to know why they were in the second day of a government shutdown that the speaker had repeatedly and publicly pledged to avoid. âJohn, what happened?â Obama asked, according to people briefed on the Oct. 2 conversation. âI got overrun, thatâs what happened,â Boehner said. It may be the most concise explanation of a chaotic, 16-day standoff that prompted the first government shutdown in nearly two decades and ended only hours before the worldâs largest economy nearly exhausted its ability to pay the bills. The fiscal drama turned on a series of complicated relationships, internecine Republican warfare and rare Democratic unity. The House Republican conference ran roughshod over Boehner, a 22-year veteran of Washington who started the fight demanding to strip funds for Obamacare but settled in the end for the reaffirmation of a minor provision already in the law. Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/anatomy-of-a-shutdown-98518.html#ixzz2i624jtZ4
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Right, anything not part of the right-wing bubble is spam. Also, this tag would suit most right-wingers.