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== Dems- Look, over there, a messy budget fight ==

<html>Pitched debates loom on the government's budget and its debt -- never flattering endeavors that in recent years have sunk the nation's credit rating and Congress' popularity.
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 One issue is whether to use the threat of a government shutdown to torpedo Obama's health care law just as its biggest impacts are about to be felt. Another point of contention is whether to raise the nation's debt ceiling, a reminder of the 2011 standoff that brought the nation to the brink of default.
 And then there are the automatic spending cuts and their burden on key Democratic constituencies -- women, minorities and young people -- in addition to the military's budget.
 On all of those subjects roiling Republicans, Democrats see a political gain in blaming the GOP. Not so Obama's muddled Syria policy.
 The president pulled back from what many believed were imminent retaliatory strikes to give Congress exactly the approval power lawmakers claimed after the White House's hard sell failed to attract support from the public or even a majority of his own party's House members. Only 16 Democratic senators and 14 Democratic House members were solidly in favor of his plan for limited strikes.
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