You call this a shutdown?

When the House of Reps passes bills to fund things the President himself was bemoaning about shutting down ... and then the President refuses to take the money, what do you call that?

One commentator this morning termed it a strike by the President, who willingly is inflicting ‘pain' on the consumers of government services. IMHO, this is one strike that's going to backfire.

IMHO it is a 'big thing'! When the day comes that citizens do not blindly accept government assurances that 'everything will workout' the loss of confidence will cause panic. Supposedly financially savvy institutions will start blowing whistles but that has not happened yet in a serious way.

Let's see - IRS, NSA, ATF, DHS, FBI and now NPS. The United States has been conquered by the selective application of the alphabet agencies in support of the unvetted president's agenda.

This shutdown has been orchestrated by the Obamanation and his henchmen in order to discredit the Republicans. He's been blaming them ever since the "shutdown." It's a political ploy, designed to smear the opposition.

Zero's MO is unconscionable.

Andrew Klavan agrees with me!

http://pjmedia.com/andrewklavan/2013/10/03/because-they-know-the-media-will-lie/

The interviews [on CNN] with Republicans are hostile and challenging. The interviews with Democrats are opportunities to attack Republicans."

Cobblers. It won't come to that. On Wednesday the banks gave him an ultimatum---make a deal, or face "adverse consequences."

http://www.voanews.com/content/Obama-bank-executives-meeting-on-shutdown-debt-limit/1761479.html

Baldly put, Obama is to see a deal is made and theft bonds continue to be serviced, or is to be replaced by someone who can.

the masses obviously aren't blaming the Republicans enough yet.

Just keep it shut down, endlessly. It's the only way the Yanks may finally understand that they have been living way beyond their means for far too long. It's a real eye opener to see just how much gubmint there is, in the so-called 'land of the free'. It's almost like it has become the new Soviet Union, with its myriad of gubmint agencies, and its endless layers of police and secret agencies to invetigate its own people, for what purpose, other than snooping.

What the insiders and the dinosaur media are afraid of is people getting used to doing without the government and possibly realizing they never needed what they were being sold for all these years.

Yup keep the breadlines and national spy networks operating at full capacity at all costs, Obamba needs his useful idiot “million man army just as strong and just as well funded as the military”.

I heard the shutdown was so bad even MSNBC had to furlough 50 of their staff.

" the US won't be able to cover some interest payments on the debt"

Nonsense. Federal revenue exceeds debt service by a 5:1 ratio. Debt gets paid first, then social security, then Medicare.

They could keep the debt ceiling where it is indefinitely and we still wouldn't have to default on the debt. In fact, it would LOWER the risk of default, since the economy would grow but the debt wouldn't and it'd be easier to service as a % of GDP.

There is precisely ZERO chance that refusal to hike the debt ceiling will result in default.

You know: I expect Obama, the Democrats and the Dems posing as "journalists" to deliberately lie about this. Seeing Conservative bloggers ignorant about it is very disheartening.

Callawyn, +1. I was planning on making the same point. There is plenty of money to service the debt and it is the only spending that the Administration is legally obligated to make, since it is not a political promise but an incurred obligation.