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What Boehner And McConnell Are Up Against

by David Kurtz
09.14.15 | 1:18 pm

Erick Erickson says bring on a government shutdown: “This is a fight on principle over whether the Republican Party should stand by and let our tax dollars be used to subsidize the American Mengeles of Planned Parenthood or not.”

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