Twelve days into a government shutdown and with the clock ticking on a debt default by the world's leading economy, Republicans in Congress are on Napoleon's retreat from Moscow.
Mr. Boehner would then face a choice: put a spending bill on the floor, unencumbered by other policy measures, and allow it to pass primarily with Democratic votes, or attach some other Republican measure and return it to the Senate with the shutdown clock ticking.
Eleven months later, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority began a new rehabilitation, this time to replace the steel support ropes, which will require a round-the-clock shutdown of a Bronx-bound lane for the next three years.
But with shutdown a reality, and the clock ticking toward default, some of those same executives now place the blame squarely on conservative Republicans in the House.
Mr Suthep launched his movement three months ago as a series of mass protests against the alleged corruption of Ms Yingluck's government, and it has since escalated into a round-the-clock, if half-hearted, "shutdown Bangkok" agitation.
WHEN The New York Times Company said it was prepared to start the clock on a shutdown of The Boston Globe, it was front-page news in last Monday's Washington Post.
That would give Mr. Boehner a stark choice: pass a short-term spending bill with Democratic votes and risk the wrath of conservative activists or try again to take a bit out of the health care law with no time left on the clock and ensure a shutdown.
Brown said he didn't have the power to hold up the bill this late in the session, with the clock ticking toward a shutdown of the federal government at midnight Friday.
But House Republicans – many of whom have long had the goal of shutting down the government – effectively wrote the shutdown into law with just hours left on the clock.
A round-the-clock online physics journal that has become a mainstay of the field won't be publishing new papers today or tomorrow due to a cybersecurity shutdown at U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories.
