GOP USA MIDDAY REPORT 09/23/2013

Pelosi: Anti-Obamacare Republicans are 'legislative arsonists' With little more than a week before a budget stalemate over Obamacare sets off a government shutdown, Democrats and Republicans dug in deeper Sunday, with lawmakers increasingly looking, pre-emptively, to pin blame on the other side.

Secession drive gathers steam in rural Colorado Jennifer Weichel stood scowling behind the counter of her antique shop, in front of a life-size cutout of John Wayne, and fairly spat the word out: "Used!" It's how, she said, people in rural northern Colorado feel they're treated by those in Denver and its sprawling suburbs, the ones with all the political power, who think milk comes from a carton and meat arrives magically shrink-wrapped inside the butcher case.

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Media Decry GOP's Fighting Spirit The Republican Party is at a crossroads, not only on Benghazi, but on Obamacare. Does the GOP have the will to fight? The media are stirring with unease at the thought that Republican congressional leaders will finally and forcefully confront Obama about his scandalous foreign and domestic policies.

Lindsey Graham in toughest re-election of career Sen. Lindsey Graham is showing no signs of changing how he operates as he faces the biggest challenge of his political career.

Government Turned Its Back on Nidal Hasan's Casualties The U.S. government got its death sentence. But Maj. Nidal Hasan's victims still wait for justice. When Hasan pumped six rounds into Shawn Manning on Nov. 5, 2009, the Twin Falls native, 13 personnel killed and 31 others wounded by the zealot's bullets at Fort Hood were in a war zone.

A Constitutional Convention is Not the Way to Amend the U.S. Constitution! Recently, Bill Ferguson, a local columnist in The Macon Telegraph, opined it is "time to call for a new constitutional convention." To make his points, he tells us about the public's general dissatisfaction with the state of affairs in our nation, and then tries to scare us to death with the frightening scenarios of a government shutdown, the U.S. defaulting on the national debt, and the gridlock in Congress, so that "these once-unthinkable situations could come to pass."

Obama laments lack of gun control With a series of domestic and international crises coming to a head at once, President Obama made clear on Sunday that he won't be pouring a great deal of his own political capital into reigniting the debate on the country's gun laws.