First Read: “Combining the two biggest political stories over the past week, we have
this question: What has been the more significant disaster — the
problems associated with the federal Obamacare website, or the state of
the Republican Party after the shutdown? There is one important
difference between the two stories. While the Obama administration is
throwing every resource to fix its website issue, is anyone inside the
GOP trying to prevent an all-out ideological civil war from breaking
out? In fact, it seems to be just the opposite: Gas is being thrown on
the internal GOP fire.”
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