What Does RESPECT Have To Do With the Government Shutdown

Link to article: CNN


This article reports about the conservatives house of representatives saying that aren't getting enough respect from President Obama and Senate in the government shutdown debate.  The congressional stalemate pits a conservative GOP wing that wants to abolish the Affordable Care Act against Democrats trying to protect Obama's landmark health care reforms passed in 2010 and upheld by the Supreme Court last year. Because of this political gridlock over the budget bill, we hold a government shutdown.

"Republicans are now in a position where they don't want to cave in because it sets a bad precedent that the Senate would be somewhat dictating how the House runs," GOP Rep. Michael Grimm of New York said this week.

This comment by GOP Rep. Michael Grimm is ironic since the House bullied the Senate to face the option of either passing a budget bill that doesn't include Obamacare or fall into a government shutdown. It's not about one side not respecting another, the issue with the government shutdown is pride. Pride beginning initially with the Republican House of Representatives, but also with the Senate and President. Neither side can back down or compromise. Now the issue has become an attack on each of the party's pride, Republicans vs Democrats, and neither side is willing to give in, continuing the government shutdown for longer than expected, which can and does have some serious repercussions on a global scale. We've talked in class of what the government shutdown in America can do to nations around the globe. China is very anxious with the shutdown in America, and they should be, they are our biggest creditors.

To conclude, I would place most the blame on the Republican House of Representatives. They are the ones who are still hanging themselves over Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) which Obama won two presidential elections with those health care reforms under his wing. I may not be an all out fan for Obamacare, but it has already been passed. The House needs to accept it and move on, or find other ways to fix and tweak the already passed health care reform, trying to remodel it as much as they can to their likes. No one wants to take the blame for the government shutdown, but it will have to fall on the Republican party.