It's not only your opinion, ExTexasRedhead, it's the feeling of just about everyone in the United States outside the circle of Obomatons! The 'Rats are displaying their true (red) colors by their marching in lockstep in the current budget/debt/Obamacare/shutdown dispute! They have absolutely no capacity to compromise for the good of the national interest as a whole, nor to listen even to their own constituents.
Even Stalin was capable of modifying his infamous Five Year Plan when circumstances warranted.
Um, I think you’re thinking of Lenin, who allowed a price system a couple of years into his Five Year Plan. I could be wrong, but I don’t know of Stalin ever changing anything.