People need to wake up to the fact that the Congress and Senate are all owned by corporate banksters and other self-interest groups. There are no Republicans, Democrats or even a Tea Party. The Supreme Court has even been hi-jacked and taken over. There is "THEM" and there is the rest of us serfs living and fighting over whatever crumbs fall our way. This entire shutdown/default farce is just a distraction. All of it. And it's working to perfection.
This corporate/political system will have to collapse completely before we can take our country back. That is the simple, undeniable truth to this matter. As long as our "representatives" are bought and sold on Wall Street, we lose. Our Country was hijacked, it's gone, dead, done. But the idea remains. And they are working to kill that now to with their divisive distractions and power grabs such as the Patriot Act and the ACA. Whether they succeed in that or not is our last hope, and right now, the hope is down to "slim and none". Too many entitled sheep, too many years of making generation after generation to stupid to know up from down, right from left or even knowing whats morally right.