[Olog-hai]

The last shutdown never got this much coverage.

[RummyChick]

Senator Harry Reid ✔ @SenatorReid Republicans are in such desperate straits that they have literally resorted to accusing me of not caring about kids with cancer. Shameful.

[w4women]

How can we trust Boener after what he pulled on exempting Congress from Ocare - the emails???? In secret!

[Billthedrill]

The last shutdown never got this much coverage.

Yeah, but the last shutdown didn't result in the seas boiling and the sun falling out of the sky...

[freedom462]

Btu I bet they blamed the last shutdown entirely on Republicans just as much in the media that people did see. Which is often considered a key factor in the 1996 election results (where not only Clinton won but to my understanding more than a few Republicans got destroyed in the elections).

[Iron Munro]

The last shutdown never got this much coverage.

The media and other democrats didn't have Obama The Choomer to protect and cover for back then.

[Eleutheria5]

Oh, yes it did. We saw starving widows and orphans, Tiny Tim with his crutch, all pointing their fingers at that evil Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole and demanding they get the glorious federal government back up and running. This time around, the Republicans are the ones trying to help the Tiny Tim stories out, and the Dems are the ones refusing to budge. How sweet it is!