To casual observers, the government shutdown engineered by Ted Cruz and his henchmen in the House of Representatives may appear to have come out of nowhere. Not so. It was planned from the early days of Obama's second term as a way of sabotaging the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), which was signed into law on March 23, 2010.
Click here for an article in the New York Times exposing the concerted attack on the Obama administration by a group of rich conservatives (including the Koch brothers, of course) and influential politicos, headed by ultraconservative Ed Meese, Reagan's attorney general, who met in Washington, D.C., early in Obama's second term with the objective of blocking the implementation of the ACA by forcing a government shutdown.
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