Obama to G.O.P.: Do You Want Another Beating?

On the morning after the night when the G.O.P. caved in humiliating fashion, the Thin Man was trying his best not to gloat. “Let’s be clear: there are no winners here,” Obama said from the State Dining Room of the White House. After recounting some of the economic costs of the seventeen-day government shutdown and the dispute over the debt ceiling, he said, “The American people are completely fed up with Washington.”

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