Fox's Shutdown Timeline Absolves GOP Of Accountability

Fox Cherry-Picks Events In Shutdown Timeline To Erase Republican Responsibility. On the October 10 edition of Fox News' Happening Now, host Jenna Lee attempted to give a timeline of the GOP's ongoing government shutdown:

LEE: You know, when did the shutdown standoff begin? I mean it feels like it's been on forever, right? Well it started on September 20th when the house voted to approve legislation which denied funding for Obamacare while keeping the government open through December 15th. Then during debate in the Senate, tea party favorite Senator Ted Cruz launched into his marathon speech against Obamacare. He started on September 24th and ended 21 hours later. So with no deal on the spending bill, at midnight October 1st, the government shutdownthe Senate, Cruz and Lee have 13 signatures -- also less than half of the chamber's Republicans -- on a similar letter. [Bloomberg News, 8/29/13]

Sept. 27: Senate Sends Bill Funding Government To House For Approval. On September 27, the Senate passed a bill funding the government through November 17 and restoring funding for the ACA. The bill then went to the House for approval, as The New York Times explained:

The Senate on Friday approved stopgap spending legislation to keep the federal government open without gutting President Obama's health care law, putting new pressure on Speaker John A. Boehner to find a way out of an impasse that had the government on a steady course to a shutdown at midnight Monday. [...] He can accept the Senate bill, which