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Politics: The Sabotage of Democracy 
Bill Moyers cuts through the bullshit. Still looking for the complete transcript but here are some pithy quotes.

"Unable to abide by the results of democracy when they don't win, they turned on it."
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Despite what they say, Obamacare is only one of their targets. Before they will allow the government to reopen, they demand employers be enabled to deny birth control coverage to female employees; they demand Obama cave on the Keystone pipeline; they demand the watchdogs over corporate pollution be muzzled and the big bad regulators of Wall Street sent home. Their ransom list goes on and on. The debt ceiling is next. They would have the government default on its obligations and responsibilities.

When the president refused to buckle to this extortion, they threw their tantrum. Like the die-hards of the racist South a century and a half ago, who would destroy the union before giving up their slaves, so would these people burn down the place, sink the ship of state, and sow economic chaos to get their way.

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At least, let's name this for what it is: sabotage of the democratic process. Secession by another means.

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The Washington Post: The Rise of the New Confederacy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/colbert-king-the-tea-party-resurrects-the-spirit-of-the-old-confederacy/2013/10/04/95b37f6e-2c7b-11e3-97a3-ff2758228523_story.html?wpsrc=AG0002957

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