[Cyberbob]

Both the shutdown and the debt ceiling crisis are man made issues with a sooner-or-later man made resolution.

Newt Gingrich is somewhat right when he says the shutdown-related hysteria is overblown.
It won't be even a talking point in a few weeks, it'll either be the status quo, or resolved very quickly when the pains start to directly affect the politicians in a negative way.

Food for thought:

If a race related law was going into action in a 1950's America, and a few extreme politicians did the same boycotting with a positive outcome, even if it was unfavorable to the masses at the time, they'd be called heroes today.

What the GOP is doing is completely legal, all the systems are in place to let them do exactly what they're doing. Want that to change? The systems need to change.