The government is open. Will anything change or get done? If Ted Cruz is the darling of the tea party, where is the tea party going? Paul Krugman writes in The New York Times that we are on a road to nowhere. Some say Democrats and the White House are winning the news cycle, but they may be losing the policy war. Will Obamacare succeed?

On this week’s “Left, Right & Center,” host Matt Miller is joined by Truthdig’s Robert Scheer and the National Review’s Byron York.

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