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i have a voice. and ain t no piece of paper going to take that from me. that s how it went last night in benton harbor, michigan. as the michigan blog electablog, that s been covering this story, pointed out, it is striking some of the republicans in washington are spending their down to the wire, shut gown the government budget meetings trying to defund four of president obama s policy czars. remember this? there are four jobs that are not filled, so it s a move that is purely symbolic. it carries precisely zero implications for federal policy. it s just that they are supposedly ideologically opposed to czars now and they want eliminating czars to be one of the things that they might shut down the federal government in order to do. but when it comes to czars, when it really comes to czars, what s happening in benton harbor, michigan, is kind of swar a capital c or t, depending on how you spell it. this is really big intrusive
i have a voice. and ain t no piece of paper going to take that from me. that s how it went last night in benton harbor, michigan. as the michigan blog electablog, that s been covering this story, pointed out, it is striking some of the republicans in washington are spending their down to the wire, shut gown the government budget meetings trying to defund four of president obama s policy czars. remember this? there are four jobs that are not filled, so it s a move that is purely symbolic. it carries precisely zero implications for federal policy. it s just that they are supposedly ideologically opposed to czars now and they want eliminating czars to be one of the things that they might shut down the federal government in order to do. but when it comes to czars, when it really comes to czars, what s happening in benton harbor, michigan, is kind of swar a capital c or t, depending on how you spell it. this is really big intrusive government.
that s how it went last night in benton harbor, michigan. as the michigan blog electablog, that s been covering this story, pointed out, it is striking some of the republicans in washington are spending their down to the wire, shut gown the government budget meetings trying to defund four of president obama s policy czars. remember this? there are four jobs that are not filled, so it s a move that is purely symbolic. it carries precisely zero implications for federal policy. it s just that they are supposedly ideologically opposed to czars now and they want eliminating czars to be one of the things that they might shut down the federal government in order to do. but when it comes to czars, when it really comes to czars, what s happening in benton harbor, michigan, is kind of czar with a capital c or t, depending on how you spell it. this is really big intrusive government. this is sit down, shut up, your elections don t matter, we re in charge now authoritarian giant government. and
welcome back to hardball . congress pulled an all-nighter on friday night to pass a budget bill that would cut $60 billion in spending. with a few exceptions, it was a party line vote and the cuts themselves look like party line cuts. a lot of them are things that republicans thereof hate, planned parenthood, national endowment for tarts, expenses for the so-called policy czars in the obama administration, the environmental protection agency, and, of course, funding for the implementation of the health care bill. here s dick durbin and lindsey graham on meet the press. if we end up shutting down the government that s an utter failure. we can do better. the only way we ll shut the government down if our