the GOP (the rich) want to financially hold the country hostage because they don't like what was legally put into place.
Hmmmm.

as they have been hired to do. Every time they voted to repeal Obama care and a bill was introduced to remove their health care, the same number of voters to repeal also voted to keep their medical insurance. If Obama care is so bad then their health insurance is bad but they do not see this part. They know there are portions of ObamaCare which has started and the folks who are enjoying those benefits and there would be repercussions the party probably does not want to deal with.

The radicals have taken over that party. Going against Boehner is considered a badge of honor in Teahadist circles.

Boehner is full of crap. He has turned the House of Representatives into political theater with those 40 "Repeal Obamacare" votes that he knows will never pass the Senate! Where are his SOLUTIONS about jobs, health care, etc.? He's got none, and this advice by him against a shutdown is a big cop out from his failures as speaker. He knows the republicans will get more tomatoes thrown at them with a shutdown. People haven't forgotten 1995!

Let the Repubs shut everything down, then..as a effort to assist in the country paying its debts (14th Amendment), have ALL perks suspended from congress. No free healthcare, no free DC parking, no free dinners, drug dealings, porn, interns, everything, and they we'll see how long the govt in shut down.......

For years, you have done nothing about the unbelievably childish behavior of the Congress; if anything, you encouraged it. So you own this, lock, stock, and barrel.