Budget Crisis

My read on this: the Republicans are betting if they are able to shut down the government it'll benefit them politically. It'll make Obama look ineffective. Funny gamble as the last time the government shut down, Bill Clinton made it look like the Republicans fault and it carried him into a second term. But Obama is not Clinton and I think they spy his weakness: looking weak.

I'd say this is a pretty shitty thing to do, but it isn't like the Democrats didn't take advantage of a mismanaged war to gain political points. Now the Republicans are taking a mismanaged Federal Budget to do the same. Too bad. But that's the era we live in.