And they laughed

I might have laughed too, at Mr. McGovern for taking this charade seriously. Obama, their worst enemy? Heavens, the buffoon is Wall Street's best friend! This is all theatre to maintain the illusion of democracy in the United States. The Republicans in the US Congress, rest assured, never had any plans to default on the debt and tell Wall Street where they could stick their theft bonds.

Do not forget that all standing armies and police forces are financed with bank credit, and those of the United States are no exception. If the Tea Party Republicans had genuinely planned to stab Wall Street in the back, all Wall Street would have had to do is give the order and the Tea Party Republicans would have been interned with little hope of getting even the illusion of a trial, just like the leaders of the Golden Dawn in Greece---on the small chance the Tea Party would have ever got near DC in the first place. Heaven knows fair elections are never suffered to take place if there's any chance the result will go against the wishes of our masters.

Yes, that was funny. Too bad it is so sad.

Despite all the efforts of all King's Horses and all the King's Men, the whole world knows that the prez is a laughable dickhead.

Trouble is, dickheads, in a desperate attempt to erase the image of dickheadery, usually end up doing something really stupid - sometimes really dangerous.

What's actually funny is that you think Obama lost on Syria. Not sure if you know this, but the goal was not to bomb Syria, but to pressure them to get rid of their chemical weapons. It looks like this has happened.

As for government shut down... yeah, go ahead GOP. See how that goes for you. By all accounts it looks like the blame will fall mostly on the Republicans. They'll be slaughtered come next election.

When you become a punch line for fellow politicians.
Your headed for Hicksville. Just ask Wiener

On syria, it can only looks that Obama and the US where out maneuvered by Russia, they looked amateurish and confused the whole way. To see it any other way is 100% due topartisan coloured glasses.

On a shut down, most Americans don't really give a shit. Despite how large the government has become, most don't care, it doesn't impact their daily lives as much as cnbc would have your believe. The sun will still come up even if the the IRS isn't running.

The executive branch has had the entire time between the last 'debt ceiling' crisis and now to address the matter. Congress put a debt ceiling in place by law, to force the executive to deal with ballooning debts, neither of the last 2 executives have dealt with it, and the buck stops with the guy in the oval office. Congress has said their isn't cash to do what the executive wants, congress controls the purse, if democrats don't like it they should have won more seats in the house...

"...It looks like this has happened...."

Not if you take a close look...

Adds more validity to the vernacular of the soiled masses = Obozo