Wake Me Up When The Government Comes Back

  I can't believe it really has been 3months since my last post. My deepest apologizes; school has been as hectic as ever, and the workload is never-ending.
  So what's been going on since then and now? The government has been spiraling into a black hole, that's what!! Whoever thought that the Republicans wouldn't go this far to fuck things up for everyone else..look at us now!
  I'm not a super left-winged person, but I feel as if we can all agree that the House Republicans seem to be the main ones screwing the pooch. Who would've known that some people would be so against a healthcare plan that encompasses everyone?
   Here it is in a nutshell: Everything revolves around the spending bill. The duty to pass this bill is held by Congress; which, at this point in time, remains "a house divided", with the Republican-led House of Representatives and the Democrat-run Senate. The House Republicans insist on any bill that is passed include provisions that would in theory stop "Obamacare", while the Senate Democrats won't allow it. No consensus=no spending bill. No spending bill=no government.
  I find this to be one of the situations in which Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth would bash their heads against the insides of their caskets, shouting "Not like that, you idiots!" [Note: Sherman and Ellsworth were the delegates from Connecticut whom proposed this concept of a dual system of congressional representation, which is commonly known as the Great Compromise.] The whole reason for the two houses is them to "check" on each other, preventing one house from having too much power. But the type of "checks" that our government is carrying out only brought everything to a stalemate.
  Although the government is back running, the Republican party has definitely taken quite a beating for being the cause of a national government shutdown. It's actually quite interesting to see how the House Republicans reacted to the government shutdown; it was like many of them (let me emphasize, NOT all of them) were like, "Ehh, a shutdown may actually do this country some good. Let the citizens suffer a bit, so they can see what it's like." My problems with that mindset are a.) LIKE OVER ONE-EIGHT OF THE COUNTRY IS LIVING IN POVERTY IT WON'T BE THE FIRST TIME THEY EXPERIENCE SUFFERING, and b.) these Congress members were definitely still being paid during this period, so they don't even "suffer" for their own actions.
   Despite everyone seeing the flaws with the Republican party through this shutdown, its computed to be highly unlikely that power will change hands through this coming elections, mainly due to the large number of seats that Democrats would have to win to reclaim the majority (19; largest historical change was 9 seats).
  I feel as if the Republicans tried to make Obama and the Democratic party look like the bad guys in this situation, but they basically turned the tables on themselves.
  Better luck next time.
  (P.S.: If you haven't seen it, go watch the SNL Miley Cyrus music video parody, called 'We Did Stop'. It is perfection.)