SATIRE: U.S. on verge of full-scale government hoedown

With legislators unable to reach an agreement on health care and other issues before the start of the new budget year, Washington insiders confirmed Monday that the United States is rapidly approaching a full-scale government hoedown, according to The Onion.

The full-blown hootenanny was slated to begin at the first sound of the fiddler's reel, lawmakers said.

“By stubbornly refusing to pass a one-year delay of Obamacare and a permanent repeal of the medical device tax, the Senate has essentially made this hoedown an inevitability, and ensured that it will be among the most rootin’est and tootin’est in memory," House Speaker John Boehner told The Onion.

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