Top 10 read newspapers slam the GOP

[SmittynMo]

The GOP constantly claims lets do this for the American people. Well, they're wrong again!!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/shutdown-newspaper-editorial_n_4030763.html

I wish they would just go away in the sunset.

[libdem4life]

1. My sense is that this is the first shut down with internet, social media, instant communication...so

they can't slither around in the dark of night. I remember when we still had to "buy" minutes. Once the internet went 24/7 for one monthly fee, life has changed. I'm thinking that was somewhere around 15-17 years ago?

[SmittynMo]

2. Very good point n/t

[magical thyme]

3. Washington Post wins it!

"...citizens still expect a minimal level of competence and responsibility: Pay the bills and try not to embarrass us in front of the world.

By those minimal standards, this Congress is failing."

[bigwillq]

4. My local slammed the GOP too

http://www.nhregister.com/opinion/20131001/editorial-house-republicans-stunning-negligence

[blkmusclmachine]

5. WHERE'S THE JOBS?!?!

[SmittynMo]

6. Tell me about it!!!

Month 4 - still not 1 interview. Over 1000 jobs applied to. And all this bullshit about new jobs created? I'm told 85% are part time jobs, with no benefits. The job market is the worst I've seen in the many years of doing contract work.

[IdaBriggs]

7. USA TODAY:(Repubs) "not ... able to attain by the usual means: winning elections."

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.

[IdaBriggs]

8. Washington Post is also GREAT!

Americans' respect for their Congress has, sad to say, diminished in recent years. But citizens still expect a minimal level of competence and responsibility: Pay the bills and try not to embarrass us in front of the world.

By those minimal standards, this Congress is failing. More specifically, the Republican leaders of the House of Representatives are failing. They should fulfill their basic duties to the American people or make way for legislators who will.

[mnhtnbb]

9. Here's the editorial from our local Raleigh News & Observer

President Obama had it exactly right when he called the shutdown of the United States government an “ideological crusade” on the part of right-wing Republicans. What a price the tea party element in the Republican Party is prepared to make the American people pay for the belief on the part of the extremists that shutting government down is no big deal and kind of fun.

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This is a testament to Boehner’s complete lack of political courage and principle. He has stood out front defending the attempts to wreck Obamacare by delaying implementation of some parts of it as though a law that was passed by Congress and affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court just doesn’t count. Even the tea partyers in Boehner’s caucus ought to understand that a law is a law is a law. But apparently these anti-government bullies don’t get it.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/10/01/3245835/boehner-deserves-blame-for-the.html#storylink=cpy