That seems to be a pretty apt analysis.

Whether or not they are truly becoming irrelevant, it seems at times like the fear of becoming irrelevant is driving members of congress to publicly embrace unsustainable positions. It could be that they're promising the impossible, in hopes that their political opponents will fumble badly enough that people will forget their prior commitments.

It's like they've taken inspiration from the Persian Horse Thief.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/30/politics/cnn-poll-shutdown-blame/?hpt=hp_t1

Just from today. Similar polls over the last few weeks have made for similar findings.

Rating only gets hurt due to debt ceiling which looks like it might be raised due to bipartisan infighting. I say get rid of all parties at this point. I want to push for multiparty government but it might be best to abolish all parties. At least that would force people to actually vote (perhaps look into each candidate) instead of voting down party lines.

heard speak of gov jobs being shut down... but uhh yeah a lot of gov workers are out of the job monday anyways as previously planned thanks to the obama administration which is unrelated to this bill

I'm actually glad that I haven't been able to pursue my Wildlife and Fisheries Management degree. I would be temp laid off with the government shutdown. However, I've been laid off plenty of times in the manufacturing industry. Makes me want to never work for a parks job in the USA. I should move to Canada.

govs been shut down for almost an hour now

edit: last shutdown was 17 years ago... don't remember a thing about it... was young but still guess it didn't matter that much

It has been pitch black outside ever since they made the announcement. It's the spookiest thing. I've had to eat six babies already. This anarchy thing is tough. I mean, who is permanently archiving all of my tweets for posterity? Are NSA agents having to spy on their love interests on their own time now?

Don't worry the fucking NSA won't be affected.  They'll keep spying on American citizens even though they are supposed to only spy on foreigners.  It's like the CIA being able to operate inside USA which they probably do through selling heroin from Afghanistan.
 

What kind of pussy ass shutdown is this?!

"get back to work as soon as possible" says obama... even though a majority ARE NOT AFFECTED as they have already had a temp lay off in effect starting monday of many gov employees... good timing i guess...

"war in Afghanistan coming to a close soon" says obama... surprised as not a lot of mention there since the war started right after 9/11/01

edit: basically Obama has already outspent our US budget enough to lay off gov employess who were only working 4 days a week and on temp lay off this past monday anyways... but hey lets spend a bunch of money we don't have because the politicians taking pay cuts is out of the question!