Source:The White House– President Barack H. Obama (Democrat, Illinois) 44th President of the United States, at The White House.

“In this week’s address, President Obama discussed his meetings with members of Congress of both parties and the ongoing effort to reopen the government and remove the danger of default from our economy. The President urged Congress to pass a budget, put people back to work, and end this shutdown. In his message, the President also called for paying our bills to prevent an economic shutdown.”

From The White House

President Obama actually hit all of the notes and laid it out exactly as it is. By saying this is not how you govern referring to the House Tea Party Caucus saying: “Gives us what we want on a particular piece of legislation, or we’ll shut the government down and even shut the economy down by defaulting.”

Governing by extortion is not the way you govern in a liberal democracy of three hundred twenty million people. The most important and developed country in the world, especially when you only represent around twenty percent of that country.

What you do instead, if you are in power, want to remain in power and you want to govern., is to look out for the best interests of the entire country and what should we be doing as a country. Not just roughly twenty percent of it that represent the Bible Belt and the Libertarian West. But what do we do for the entire country including the Bible Belt and Libertarians who tend to be anti-government all together. And right now are loving the government shutdown.