Yes, I think that they should! There are some little girls out there that really want to and enjoy being in beauty pageants. Why crush their fun?

They most certainly should. There are a lot of people out there abusing this program that the government has provided for them. If they're just using it so that they can lie in the gutter for the rest of their lives on government cash and do drugs and whatever else they might be doing, they shouldn't have that priviledge. There are people out there who need welfare, and we don't need drug addicts dirtying it up.

But there WAS something to compromise on, and the democrats completely ignored that fact. It shouldn't have been passed in the first place, since so many people have such a problem with it. There wouldn't have been a government shutdown if there had been any compromise at all. Even if it was just enacted today, that means that today is only the beginning of all of the problems that it will cause in the future.

If the republicans are supposedly disputing every fact on the bill, then why don't the democrats try to negotiate it? Find a compromise? If anything, it's the democrat's fault that the government shut down.

It's, without doubt, the democrats fault. They haven't seemed to be willing in the slightest to negotiate any point on the Obamacare bill. They think what they have to say in the matter is more or less the last word. We haven't gotten anywhere because of their unwillingness to work things out with the other side.