[CharlesWayneCT]

are so fixated on repealing or changing Obamacare that they are willing to risk the nation’s economic health

What really maddens me, what really drives me nuts, is that simple fairness should require the media to point out that the democrats are so fixated on implementing and defending Obamacare that they are willing to:

1. Force it through with strictly democrat votes
2. Replace their own chairman for trying to work with republicans on the bill
3. adopt a lousy version when Massachusetts liberals elect a republican to take away their 60 votes.
4. Use budget reconciliation as a way to bribe house democrats to vote for the bill
5. lie about abortion coverage to get other house democrats to vote for the bill
6. Stand idly by while the president re-writes the bill to his liking.
7. AND, are willing to risk the nation's economic health to defend even the most indefensible parts, like the medical device tax, or to avoid delaying the tax on individuals for one year.

EITHER party could have ended the shutdown at any time, simply by giving in to the other side's demands. But somehow, the media decided that the democrat demands were "reasonable", and the republicans "unreasonable", even though a majority of people liked the republican idea.

[Qout]

Back up from the details a bit. This is not about Obamacare. This is not about the debt ceiling. This is not about the budget. During the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, Mayor Daley said, “The confrontation was not created by the police; the confrontation was created by the people who charged the police. Gentlemen, let’s get the thing straight, once and for all. The policeman isn’t there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.”

Never let a crisis go to waste. It’s the Chicago way.