Is the Shutdown Really the Republicans Fault?

Is the shutdown really the Republicans fault?

Of course, all the news outlets are saying it’s the Republican’s fault. And all the Democrat talking heads are saying it’s the Republican’s fault. But is it really ALL their fault?

The concept of a two-party system is that differences are negotiated to compromised solutions. But the Democrats refused to compromise. And even worse – they are all claiming it is the Republicans that refused to compromise.

The Republicans started this fiasco by insisting that Obamacare be completely defunded. Of course that was a no-go for the Dems.

So by the time it came down to the eleventh hour showdown, the Republicans had offered multiple scale-back compromises, until their final offer only had two points of contention with Obamacare.

1) They wanted the individual mandate to be delayed for a year – just like Pres. Obama had already done for the small businesses mandate.

2) They wanted Congress and its staff to have to participate in Obamacare – just like the rest of the country.

From complete defunding to asking that the Democrats get in the same boat as the citizens certainly sounds like compromise to me.

But what did the Democrats say? From their repeated on-camera news appearances throughout the day and evening, from the president down to the lowliest member – it was…

We will not compromise on Obamacare!

So is it really ALL the Republican’s fault?

Say what you want about partisan bickering in the United States Congress and the government shutdown, the facts are simple.

The Republicans in the House of Representatives repeatedly compromised, moving increasingly closer to the position of the leftists. Democrats in the Senate and President Obama refused to budge an inch. You cannot blame Republicans for this shutdown. The only blame that can be placed in this mess is on Barack Obama and Harry Reid for absolutely refusing to compromise with the House of Representatives.

Look, Republicans control the House of Representatives. Democrats control the Senate and the White House. For some reason, Democrats believe the House of Representatives should just be a rubber stamp for their aggressive, irresponsible, and unpopular progressive agenda, especially when it comes to Obamacare. Despite repeated attempts and pleas by House Republicans to reach a compromise budget with Democrats in the US Senate and Barack Obama, the Democrats flat out refused to even discuss possible compromises with the Republicans.

From the sick, twisted minds of Democrat strategists and leaderships, this is nothing more than a calculated political maneuver. They know that 2014 is shaping up to be an insanely Republican year. They know they’re likely to lose the Senate. After all, more Americans are identifying themselves as “conservative” than at anytime since 1952. That’s due in no small part to the people learning more and more about what Obamacare actually does and how they can expect to be screwed over by it.

However, by using the poor and the elderly as pawns in their manipulative political positioning, Democrats hope to make Republicans the bad guys who shut down the government. This is nothing more than a game to Democrats.

Barack Obama and his Democrat cronies can negotiate with Vladimir Putin, but not Republicans.

These socialist can negotiate with Iran and Syria, but not Republicans.

This administration has no problems regularly working with China; which murders thousands of innocent men, women and children; pollute the water and air more than any country in the world; steal protected material; steal our national secrets; threaten our greatest allies in Asia and the Pacific; and promote communist insurgencies in Latin America… yet when House Republicans want to protect the people from a bad law that is going to hurt millions of Americans and cause the price of health insurance to skyrocket more than it already has, Barack Obama won’t budge.

Call your Congressmen, write your town newspapers, and do everything you can to make sure the country and the world knows that this government shutdown is merely a political ploy of Barack Obama and Senate Democrats.