Partially caused by your own party? I've seen many posts or threads by the right that is sick of some of the things the GOP does. Yet EVERY thread by the left gives their own party a complete pass and lambastes the right. Most polls show Americans are sick of EVERYONE in DC. But instead of taking that to heart you play stupid games with the percentages. Just yesterday I saw a poll that had Obama at 17% approval among independents. That is TERRIBLE. Yet every thread is about what everyone else is doing wrong.
Today I saw Alan Colmes say that he thinks there should be a 6 to 12 month delay on forced enrollment in Obamacare. And he's about as far left as one can be without falling over. How is it he can be honest but none of you can? What's the harm in the delay? The system is currently COMPLETELY dysfunctional. Even Gibbs admitted this.
Then we have the current shutdown. Boehner wont allow votes on Senate bills and Reid wont allow votes on house bills. Yet for some crazy ass reason that is beyond me the Tea Party gets the blame when it is ENTIRELY up to Reid & Boehner.
They are ALL acting like spoiled children INCLUDING OBAMA.
Let me ask you this:
If the Tea Party Republicans were not obsessed with repealing the Affordable Care Act, still fighting the fight of 2009, accepted the fact that the Republican nominee in 2012 who ran on their issue of repeal was roundly defeated, would there be a government shutdown today? If Ted Cruz didn't filibuster over the ACA and direct house Republicans to pull the trigger on the shutdown, would there be a shut down today?
It's not the Democrats who planned, orchestrated and celebrated the shut down at all, was it?
My incredulity stems from the fact that the shut down was brought about by the Tea Party Republicans and then, rather than accept the responsibility for it, started to blame everyone else once the shut down proved to be such a political problem! All this from the party that advocates responsibility! Weird the way it all worked out, huh?