For the record. The Tea party (republicans) shut down the government.
Please elaborate...
Sure. The republicans want to shut down Obamacare. It's not going to be done, because it's passed into law. The Tea party could care less about law, and tried to put in in their budget. Of course the Dems refused it, but did vote in the senate for a budget with the republicans numbers. The republicans refused to vote on it, because it would have passed. They didn't want it to pass, so by not voting on it the government had no funding, an closed.
The Tea party held the government hostage by insisting some changes to Obamacare. That is not the way to get a law changed, but they didn't care. They've done their best to put the blame on Obama, but they haven't fooled the majority. Polls are showing the Republicans are to blame for the shutdown, and they're right.
I'm not a fan of Obama, or Obamacare, but the republicans are wrong in how they went about this. You don't let people suffer by shutting down the government to try and change a law you have no chance of changing.
Of course Obama has to enforce the shutdown now. He has no choice.
All the Republicans have to do is vote on the budget that the senate gave them, and the shutdown would be over. Nobody is forcing anything on them. Just take a vote on a budget that is their numbers in the house which they are the majority. That means a lot of republicans need to vote on it for it to pass.
Simple as that.
