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    Meet the ten hardline conservatives who are really controlling the GOPs government shutdown

    Moyers & Company
    October 12, 2013 8:56AM ET
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    Meet the ten hardline conservatives who are really controlling the GOPs government shutdown

    Much of the coverage of the government showdown has focused on a relatively small group of hardline conservatives within the Republican caucus who have backed their party’s leaders into a fight they didn’t want. As Ryan Lizza noted in The New Yorker…


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