Bias

The federal government has been in partial shutdown since Oct. 1 after the Republican-controlled House refused to pass legislation to fund government services unless the president's health care law is delayed or defunded. Obama has refused to negotiate over his signature domestic legislation, otherwise known as Obamacare.

I read the above passage on Yahoo News.  How else might it have said the same thing?  Let's try a bit of a rewrite:

The federal government has been in partial shutdown since Oct. 1 after the Democrat-controlled Senate refused to pass legislation to fund government services unless the president's health care law was left unaltered.

The first lays blame for the shutdown on the Republicans and the second on the Democrats.  Both of these statements are true.  In which case, it is hard to lay blame on only one party.  The fact that it is laid on one demonstrates a bias of Yahoo News.

http://news.yahoo.com/arizona-de-fuhrer-barton-obama-134942788.html