Republicans shut down the government, and then complain because the government is shut down.
You've actually managed to unjustly say the Republicans did it, and yet you ignore the fact that it was Obama who not only said he would not budge nor negotiate, and he coerced or was coerced (which is not clear to me) with or by Pelosi and Reid to not meet with Republicans last Sunday to avoid the shutdown based on his refusal to negotiate.
You can't fool all of the people all of the time, Chris. We open our doors to negotiation. Obama slams his shut and nails it down.
For that, Republicans are blameless in Obama's shutting down the government while happy talking the public. The public is getting wise to that kind of behavior.
You have a new ally in Bill O'Reilly. He's now spouting nonsense too.
We Republicans put people in Congress to stop the spending. When they did, Obama figured out a way to project his wrongdoing on Republicans with his cursed happy talk lies while he's the one who wouldn't engage in give and take. He wants to do all the taking and blame the opposition for it all. What he can't take away is the rise in the National Debt on his watch and trying to blame President Bush for everything:
US National Debt Clock $16,963,564,000,000.00