How is the shutdown the Republicans fault?
They have offered spending bills and will continue to offer more, it is Reid and Obama that have acted like adolescents and will not negotiate at all, simply refusing. Obama will talk with Iran and Syria, criminal regimes that have assisted in killing fellow Americans and potentially killed, using chemwarfare, their own peoples... but will not deign to talk with his fellow Americans on something this important. Shameful.
And damn, for once the Republicans have shown some backbone standing up to all this government, as we all know, unsustainable spending. Somebody, before we all go over the Niagara here, has to be the adult in the room and point to the edge, note that, while its fun being neck deep, we are floating quickly towards the falls up ahead, apply the paddles, brake to a stop, put the damn government in reverse. Either that or go over the falls in this barrel of crap we have trapped ourselves into.
Hell, we have our posterity to think of, that is as solemn an obligation as it was to those who have handed down to us this great place. Why squander it being irresponsible? And moreover, why blame the ones trying to do something about it, why not at least have the intellectual honesty to say the Democrats are flat out WRONG and seem bent on our economic, and one would have to assume soon thereafter, our physical destruction.
And good lord, all this pettiness from the Obama admin... shutting down parks, WW2 memorials and trying to chase off our WW2 vets who are mostly too old to ever come there again, canceling the Army Navy game... I mean, come on, what is that crap...never done in the 8 shut downs the Democrats had during the Reagan years... and cutting off the white house tours during the sequester, that was petty, too. We have what amounts to a big child who somehow became president. I could see the movie BIG remade using this scenario, a young 12 year old black boy dreaming he is president and waking up in the Oval Office... except this isn't anywhere near funny.
Stop this madness.