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The past week's political events that help shape the American  politics.

Acontecimientos políticos de la semana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recargas.

"We’ve been locked in a fight over here, trying to bring government down to size, trying to do our best to stop Obamacare,” House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) told a Cincinnati radio station. “We fought the good fight. We just didn’t win.”The Senate overwhelmingly ratified the deal Wednesday evening, 81 to 18, with more than half of Senate Republicans voting yes. The House followed suit, approving the measure 285 to 144. Eighty-seven Republicans joined a united Democratic caucus in approving the bill.President Obama sighed it reopen the government today. WP

Jerry Pippin and i discuss this three week waste of time and money by the Tea Party GOP.

How can a state constitutional amendment banning the use of race violate the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition on racial discrimination?

Those competing arguments await justices in the case of Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, the court’s second look at affirmative action in higher education in a year. It concerns an amendment to the Michigan constitution passed by 58 percent of the state’s voters in 2006.WP

A Morning quarterback is a person who passes judgement on and criticizes something after the event (the Oxford Dictionary).

 

We take a look at the Sunday talk shows and more

Jerry Pippin and i discuss what happens on the day the "Party is over",how did we get and where do we go.

The past week's political events that help shape the American  politics.

Acontecimientos políticos de la semana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recargas.

The Pentagon reached an agreement with the non-profit Fisher House Foundation to restore for military families $100,000 death benefits that have been stalled by the shutdown, which enters its 10th day today."I am offended, outraged and embarrassed that the government shutdown had prevented the Department of Defense from fulfilling this sacred responsibility in a timely manner," Chuck Hagel

Jerry Pippin it is a matter of Respect.

"Members of Congress, and the House Republicans in particular, don't get to demand ransom in exchange for doing their jobs, he said. "And two of their very basic jobs are passing a budget and making sure that America's paying its bills.It is not raising our debt," Obama said of increasing the debt ceiling. "It simply says you pay for what Congress has already authorized America to purchase, whether that's the greatest military in the world or veterans' benefits or Social Security."President Obama

"The effects of any failure to repay the debt would be felt right away, leading to potentially major disruptions in financial markets, It could well be that what is now a U.S. recovery would turn into a recession or even worse." IMF's chief economist Olivier Blanchard

A "Nation Divided" by Jerry Pippin(jerrypippin.com)