Bias

The shutdown began Oct. 1 after a group of House Republican lawmakers blocked a budget deal in a last-ditch effort to stop funding for President Barack Obama's health care law.

That is not accurate.

The shutdown began Oct 1 after the Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, and President Barack Obama refused to consider any one of several bills passed by the House of Representatives which altered the so called "Affordable Care Act" in any manner.

Since the shut down several more alternative resolutions have been passed, but all contain language that modifies the ACA so the Democrat controlled Senate refuses to consider them or even talk to the House of Representative leadership about moving past this impasse.

It should be noted that The House is doing exactly what their constituients are asking and are, in fact, doing their Constitutionally mandated job.

From The Federalist Paper #58:

The House of Representatives cannot only refuse, but they alone can propose, the supplies requisite for the support of government. They, in a word, hold the purse -- that powerful instrument by which we behold, in the history of the British Constitution, an infant and humble representation of the people gradually enlarging the sphere of its activity and importance, and finally reducing, as far as it seems to have wished, all the overgrown prerogatives of the other branches of the government. This power over the purse may, in fact, be regarded as the most complete and effectual weapon with which any constitution can arm the immediate representatives of the people, for obtaining a redress of every grievance, and for carrying into effect every just and salutary measure.