A November Government Shutdown Looks More Likely Than Ever

  • Bias Rating

    -58% Very Liberal

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -12% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    98% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

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"Will they pretend they can magically force Democrats to submit to the will of the anti-government zealots, Ukraine-haters, anti-abortion activists, conspiracy theorists, and fossil-fuel enthusiasts that are so powerful in today's GOP?"
Positive
12% Conservative
"McHenry has aounced that Republicans will hear candidates for party leadership at closed-door sessions on October 10, and they will select the GOP nominee for Speaker the following day."
Positive
12% Conservative
"Keep in mind that electing McCarthy took 15 ballots and a ton of concessions to the far-right fringe of the conference thanks to the tiny four-seat Republican majority in the chamber."
Positive
0% Conservative
"That's theoretically possible under House rules, but Trump has a few other fish to fry and would likely prefer to continue to snipe at House leaders from the sidelines as part of his claim that only his restoration to the presidency can fix Washington."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Republicans might have hoped the ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy would offer a blood sacrifice to the savage furies tearing apart the House GOP conference, finally calming things down."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"The process for choosing a new Speaker, under the supervision of Speaker pro tempore Patrick McHenry (who is not considered a likely candidate himself), is essentially a hurried-up version of the usual bieial leadership elections."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"And this new Speaker will find themselves under the same sword of Damocles, a potential motion to vacate the chair, that eventually fell on McCarthy."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"If that's not enough to satisfy MAGA folk, Texas congressman Troy Nehls has aounced he will place Donald Trump's name in the hopper to lead House Republicans."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"If that's not enough to satisfy MAGA folk, Texas congressman Troy Nehls has aounced he will place Donald Trump's name in the hopper to lead House Republicans."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"But absolutely nothing in the set of circumstances that led McCarthy to his fatal deal on the stopgap spending bill has changed, other than a fresh and vivid illustration of the danger of showing any reasonableness when you are a Republican leader."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"With the clock ticking on the 45-day stopgap spending deal that led to McCarthy's demise, and the two parties further apart than ever on more issues than you can count, House Republicans must quickly agree upon and then elect a new Speaker."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"But any GOP candidate for Speaker is going to have to address the 45-day reprieve from a government shutdown that was McCarthy's undoing and what to do in the extremely likely event that House Republicans caot reach agreement among themselves and then with Democrats on a broad range of spending and policy topics."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"The front-ruer, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, has a slightly better reputation with hard-core right-wingers than did his frenemy McCarthy (though Scalise is also battling blood cancer)."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"The front-ruer, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, has a slightly better reputation with hard-core right-wingers than did his frenemy McCarthy (though Scalise is also battling blood cancer)."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"The front-ruer, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, has a slightly better reputation with hard-core right-wingers than did his frenemy McCarthy (though Scalise is also battling blood cancer)."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"He may be challenged by House Freedom Caucus member and scandal-monger Jim Jordan, whose election would place an extremist bomb-thrower right in the Speaker's chair."
Negative
-36% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Will they pretend they can magically force Democrats to submit to the will of the anti-government zealots, Ukraine-haters, anti-abortion activists, conspiracy theorists, and fossil-fuel enthusiasts that are so powerful in today's GOP?

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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