Now that the magic coin is no longer on the table, Politico is kicking off the next stage of the debt ceiling fight with a report that House Republicans are "seriously entertaining dramatic steps," including letting the government default or shutting it down altogether.
Good news: The federal government came to a spending agreement Tuesday, most likely avoiding a shut-down long before most of us started seriously started stressing about it.
This time Congressional Republicans are trying to stop spending money on disaster relief
Paging the psychologist...
The budget deal backlash begins among the president's allies
Cartoonist Tom Toles asks: Libya's or America's?
How to beat the shutdown blues when the federal government picks up your trash
In the small ironies department, Fox News' live coverage has bumped their exiting host
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Cartoonists know sometimes a picture is all you need
A look at the worst-case scenario from a few points of view
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