Partisan Politics Make Me Mad

Many articles published in the wake of the government shutdown have proposed that the Speaker of the House, John Boehner (R-Ohio) [pictured below], has the ability to end the shutdown but will not due to the conflicts of partisan politics. Boehner will not pass a bill to fund federal agencies and national parks for the next six weeks because it lacks Republican support. The Washington Post reported: "The speaker’s closest allies say he cannot afford to defy those on his right flank by ending the shutdown with largely Democratic votes." With 800,000 federal workers at home and economists predicting that if the shutdown continues it will cost the economy billions of dollars, Republicans still insist it is worth the attempt to derail Obamacare--or worse yet, to not piss off your buddies. The speaker's problems are far from over, with the impending debt crisis looming over his, and America's, horizon.