Source:Associated Press– President Barack H. Obama (Democrat, Illinois) at The White House.

“President Barack Obama says he’s ‘not at all’ resigned to a government shutdown. During a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama said he’ll speak with congressional leaders during the day to address the budget impasse.”

Source:Associated Press

As I’ve already said on this blog:

“I wouldn’t say that the Tea Party House government shutdown is a political suicide mission, because this plan (if you want to call it that) doesn’t even seem to have a mission, or even a pilot. It’s more like drunk people at a pool with a group of them going up on the high dive, blindfolded, and one of them falls off and never makes it to the water. And that’s assuming that House Republicans are politically suicidal to go through with this. Or, are they just doing this for their right-wing-populist base and trying to tell them that they’re doing whatever they can to try to end the Affordable Care Act. (Also known as ObamaCare)”

From FRS FreeState

Again, if the American people wanted the Affordable Care Act (also known as ObamaCare) repealed or defunded, they would’ve put the people in power (like the Tea Party) to do that for them. Instead of reelecting a Progressive Democratic President and a Democratic Senate, as well has giving House Democrats 8 more seats.

The only reason why House Republicans are risking a government shutdown right now, (which might be politically suicidal for them going into a mid-term election) is because this is the only leverage that they have, to try to force Senate Democrats and President Obama, to do for them, what and overwhelming majority of Americans, don’t want them to do.