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• Tunisia’s Government Falls, Arab Democracy Is Born - Bloomberg

  " Editorials Don’t Expect a Shutdown to Change MuchQ Margaret Carlson New Year’s Eve Bureaucrat Binge Costs Taxpayers BillionsQ Cass R. Sunstein Heroes and Soldiers of the Supreme CourtQ James Sherk How Union Law Hurts a Nonunion Auto PlantQ Jeffrey Goldberg Don't Be Fooled by Iran's Charming New LeaderQ Ramesh Ponnuru The Republicans Fighting Against Obamacare Aren’t CrazyQ Editorials Don’t Expect a Shutdown to Change MuchQ Margaret Carlson New Year’s Eve Bureaucrat Binge Costs Taxpayers BillionsQ Cass R. Sunstein Heroes and Soldiers of the Supreme CourtQ James Sherk How Union Law Hurts a Nonunion Auto PlantQ Jeffrey Goldberg Don't Be Fooled by Iran's Charming New LeaderQ Ramesh Ponnuru The Republicans Fighting Against Obamacare Aren’t CrazyQ < Tunisia’s Government Falls, Arab Democracy Is Born By Noah Feldman Oct 1, 2013 2:19 AM GMT+0400 Facebook Share Tweet LinkedIn Google +1 3 COMMENTS Print QUEUE Q If you blinked, you missed it, but the democratically elected Islamist government of an Arab country just promised to resign peacefully, with no threat of a coup d’etat in sight. Tunisia is still a long way from political stability. Yet once again, the nation that started the Arab Spring is showing the rest of the region how it’s supposed to be done. Reasonable people facing deep disagreements are negotiating and power-sharing their way to the Holy Grail of legitimate constitutional democracy."

  tags: tunisia islamist government middleeast revolution

• Bob Woodward hits GOP over 'blackmail' - Tal Kopan - POLITICO.com

  "Bob Woodward said Monday that one word describes what’s happening over the federal budget: “Blackmail.” “Let’s call it what it is, they are trying to blackmail the president and say, ‘Look, we’re going to shut down the government or default on our debt unless you — we go back, rewind the clock, on Obamacare and delay it or somehow cut off the funding,’” the longtime Washington Post journalist said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “You can’t govern that way. It will not work. It will be exposed.”"

  tags: woodward government obama republicans blackmail hostage

• Government shutdown 2013 - POLITICO.com

  "Two-party government proved as divided as ever, as House Republicans continue to insist on changing, delaying or defunding Obamacare as the price for keeping the government open, while Senate Democrats and President Barack Obama firmly rejected that position. "

  tags: hostage ridiculous partisanship republicans democrats government obama

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