Budget tantrum is irresponsible

A good editorial from the Enquirer:

U.S. Reps. Thomas Massie, Steve Chabot, Brad Wenstrup and other local officials have been vocal in the effort to defund Obamacare. Now they are foolishly linking it to efforts to shut down the federal government.

...Polls show that voters – even those opposed to Obamacare – do not want the federal government to shut down. They’d prefer their elected officials to be working on the priorities they were sent to Washington to fight for: job creation, national security, immigration and other issues.

...In the case of the Affordable Care Act, our democracy worked the way it’s supposed to. Now opponents must be willing to accept a law they don’t like. To throw a tantrum and threaten the national economy because they don’t agree with the results of the process is irresponsible, dangerous and unworthy of the office the voters elected them to.