The Republican party is going through a phase of insanity. Their party has been taken over by the most emotionally backward and stunted people in the country, self-hating Southern spawned racism on the rampage. That is why the fact that the shutdown could be more likened to a slim down owing to the portion actually unfunded, that has nothing at all to do with what is behind the word games. The most insane element of our society, in an effort to prevent a Black man from governing successfully and from garnering credit for a more universal health care system, have shut the government down rather than legislate other important issues. These profoundly immature individuals, sick to their cores, have derailed the political process in a tantrum. Because the obvious truth of this will redound to the benefit of Democrats, all stops are being pulled out to mitigate the inevitable damage. Please oh please, America, don't think ill of our stinking asses and that we are unpatriotic traitors. See this only as a government slim down. You can fool a lot of the people a lot of the time, witness the number of morons posting here in this thread, but in the long run shit smells like shit. It's a full moon and the mentally ill are beginning to howl and little rat minds are out trying to twist words. The Republican party depends for its existence of people with defective minds, minds that neither reason or think logically. You create what you fear and Republicans fear the loss of elections. Hehe! There's a cost to being psychologically ignorant.
If our country weren't so filled with blithering meat-heads, maybe we could do something serious about the debt. But Republicans aren't really about the debt, they're about control. Don't ever lose control, because what is inside might escape, as if it isn't already killing us anyway.
But never mind if you have a conservative brain. You can only deflect what I say. The insane do the same thing time and time again so the rest of us know already what to expect.