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Kristof’s Gang Of 40

In the United States, There is gang of 40 ,Nictblas .D.Kristof compares “The gang of 40” today to Gang of 40 in china in 1970. The republican have 40 stubborn members who closed the Federal Government .Republicans don’t want to pay money for Obamacare because the tax increase. The writer thinks the republicans are bad people for closing federal government.

In the United States, we always do things in a grand way, so it is a tribute to American exceptionalism that we have outperformed China in the field of extremist ideologies. We do not have some little foursome, but an unrivaled “Gang of 40.”

The Gang of 40’s government shutdown has been bad enough, cutting off death benefits to families of service members and ending federal support for rape crisis centers . It’s doubly painful that all this is happening while the House and Senate gyms remain open.

There is now a right wing shaped by Fox News Channel and Web sites like RedState that repeats such nonsense until it acquires a patina of plausibility — and thus makes a catastrophe difficult to avoid.

What makes our trajectory dangerous is that the hard-liners are getting positive feedback.

Two features strike me about this moment — and both are echoes of the mistakes in the run-up to the Civil War. One is the obliviousness of central players, especially the Gang of 40, to the risks ahead .

The second is the way politicians seek leverage by brazenly threatening deliberate harm to the nation unless they get their way. The House Republican hard-liners lost their battle against Obamacare in the democratic process, just as President Obama lost his battle for an assault-weapons ban.

The G.O.P. claims to be the party particularly concerned by budget deficits. Yet its tantrum caused a government shutdown that cost the country $1.6 billion last week alone ,As for the debt limit, the costs of missing that deadline could be infinitely greater.

Members of the Gang of 40 are unwilling to pay for early childhood education, but they are O.K. with paying untold billions for a government shutdown and debt-limit crisis? That’s not governance, but extremism .

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