USA Today editorial say's the shutdown is the GOP's doing

[Bill USA]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/10/01/republicans-obamacare-shutdown-blame-editorials-debates/2896557/
(emphasis my own)

Now that the shutdown has happened, many people are inclined toward a second default position: Blame everyone.

In this case, however, the "they're all bums" reaction is off-base. This shutdown, the first in 17 years, isn't the result of two parties acting equally irresponsibly. It is the product of an increasingly radicalized Republican Party, controlled by a disaffected base that demands legislative hostage-taking in an effort to get what it has not been able to attain by the usual means: winning elections.

Call it the Tea Party shutdown. The group will wear the badge proudly.

Pressed by this uncompromising fringe, Republicans leaders in the House are making demands that are both preposterous and largely unrelated to budgetary matters in return for keeping government running. Most absurdly, they want President Obama to undermine the health care law that he ran on in 2008 and 2012, and now considers his signature domestic accomplishment.
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[blkmusclmachine]

1. In other breaking news, water is wet.

[Cha]

2. Good.. thanks Bill! Thank you USA!

[66 dmhlt]

3. Great! Good to see some MSM put the blame squarely where it belongs

[Stuart G]

4. I think the MSM will turn on these hostage takers...Why?

In the long run, they are large corporations, plain and simple. Large corporations will not do well if this shutdown continues and our debts are not paid. It really isn't rocket science. The large corporations do not want to see the United States government default on its debt. So, they will turn on these people. that is it...and you will see these Tea Party dumb asses destroyed by the media that built them..