I hope Americans are truly paying attention right now.

[Drunken Irishman]

This is what happens when you vote Republican. Remember it come 2014.

[sheshe2]

1. It's my hope too, DI.

GOTV 2014 and beyond!

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. those who vote R are too far gone. MSM provides no clarity due to false equivalence.

[elleng]

3. WE are;

don't know about the rest.

[graywarrior]

4. I hope people get so pissed off they actually DO something.

[MyOpinion-2]

5. Boehner is soooooo weak

Boehner is too weak to call himself a leader; he let a group of spoiled brats take over the house while he sit back and nurse on a bottle, if he really had a backbone he would stand strong on his convictions and let being a GOP leader be a teachable moment, instead, he has folded himself up like a chair and is letting the tea-party brats run crazy through the house. I hope a lot of them do not get reelected, they are only thinking about themselves and not the country.

[young_at_heart]

6. I think more people than we realize have no clue!

The older I get, the more I realize there are many people that know literally nothing about their government.

[defacto7]

7. ^ this ^

It's a sad fact that I know to be true... ignorance of government affairs. Many will just wonder why they all of a sudden don't get a check. I know 2 people who, at an hour before midnight, didn't know the government was possibly shutting down in an hour. After I told them it was most likely going to happen, they didn't know what it meant anyway so they just shrugged it off. Unbelievable. It's right there in front of them on their computer screens but they are so used to cushy living without care or knowledge of history or anything else for that matter that they just paid no attention.

And the World laughs!

[JI7]

8. just look at the guy from FreeRepublic getting the Govt funded Medical Care

there are wayyy too many cases like this that i see .

but i find many of them do tend to be racist, anti gay , or some other bigots .