AMERICA HELD HOSTAGE: Day 999

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*In 1979, the Iranian government took 52 Americans hostage. President Carter called the hostages "victims of terrorism and anarchy," adding that "the United States will not yield to blackmail." Ted Koppel and ABC News started a nightly feature "America Held Hostage" including the number of days the hostages had been imprisoned. The standoff lasted 444 days.

On September 28, 2013, GOP anarchists took 316 million Americans hostage. On November 4, 2014, 499 days from Tuesday, October 1, 2013, we can vote the hostage takers out of office and free the American people. And on January 4, 2015, 463 days from today, the United States government will again be free to ... govern.

http://northcentralblogistan.wordpress.com/2013/09/29/america-held-hostage-tea-party-anarchists-vote-to-shut-down-u-s-government/

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1. Rachel Maddow: 'Elect Republicans and They Will Burn the Place Down'

by Lucas Grindley
October 01 2013

When the federal government officially shut down at midnight, MSNBC went to its most popular anchor, Rachel Maddow, who warned viewers, "Elect Republicans and they will burn the place down.”

Maddow showed clip after clip of Republicans saying since 2010 that they looked forward to one day shuttering the government. Then she played footage of Republican House members leaving a strategy meeting on Saturday as if they'd hatched a plan worth celebrating. "They did not seem like they were having a somber moment," she observed.

The out anchor who has become the face of MSNBC depicted Republicans as "psyched about this." She went on, "This is happening because they like this tactic."

Then, before cutting to an interview with Slate's Dave Weigel, she summed up her point with the quote that made headlines. "Elect Republicans and they will burn the place down," she said, "and they like the sound of that."

In the video below, watch a version of the segment that aired earlier in the day, before the shutdown had officially happened.

http://www.advocate.com/politics/2013/10/01/rachel-maddow-elect-republicans-and-they-will-burn-place-down

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2. We've been held hostage since Reagan.

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3. this group is Reagan on STEROIDS!

The GOP has never been more reckless, dangerous, and INSANE.

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4. President Obama: Republicans holding economy 'hostage'

NBC News
October 01, 2013

President Barack Obama reacts to Tuesday's government shutdown while speaking at the White House.

see video:

http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbc-news/53157206/#53157206

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5. kick

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