Disgraceful

Welcome to October!   The idiots did it.   They managed to shut down the U.S. government.   Radical right wing Tea Party Republicans - and mainstream GOP leaders lacking the courage to stand up to these political newcomers - have failed to do their job of keeping government running.     Tying these shutdown threats to the repeal of President Obama's signature legislation, the Affordable Care Act, was a foolish move that will come back to haunt them.    Tea Party grandstander Senator Ted Cruz of Texas hails from a state that has the most citizens lacking health insurance, yet he spent 21 hours on a fake filibuster devoid of real facts about what's wrong with the new health insurance laws.   Several GOP Representatives were asked on CNN if they would join thousands of government workers and forego being paid if they shut down the government.    Do you think they had a yes or no to that?    Of course not.    The American people may not know exactly how Obamacare will play out in the coming months, but they do know that shutting down many government services and then threatening to default on our existing debts later this month is unacceptable.    Obamacare is the law of the land, ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court and validated by last year's Presidential election.   Radical Republicans fail to face that fact, blinded by their ideological hatred of President Obama.    We're in dangerous territory now.    The end game is unknown.