The Tea Party, the government shutdown, and Obamacare by Rosenthal, L

“…</p> <p>Objection to Obamacare is based on a notion that both benefits and political rights per se are zero-sum commodities. This is a theory that at once interprets the Tea Party’s fierce sense of dispossession, and forms a constitutional principle that rationalizes such extreme measures as the current government shutdown and the threat of default later in the month if Obamacare is not scrapped.…”