when one form of our government refuses to do anything. even pass a basic budget or to agree to pay bills?

Conservatives hate America.

I am not sure since the President and the Senate has been tabling every single spending Bill that the House sends them. When the House passes a Bill to have the Senate sit down to combine their Bill with the Senate Bill, the Senate doesn't show up.

I am sorry, but the House can't control what the Senate and the President are doing. I am assuming this is what you are talking about.

You also do realize that mid-December is rapidly approaching and I have a feeling that the Democrats in the Senate will want to continue to spend recklessly "for the good of the people" and raise taxes only on the wealthy when in the past taxes were a shared pain by all, not just the top 50% of wage earners.

Right now, there is no legal punishment for them- once elected, they can do whatever they want. However, the people are fully entitled to vote for someone else at the next election, if they aren't happy with the way the existing Congress has behaved.

In some countries, there are systems in place to stop deadlocks like this- if the government gets deadlocked, or can't pass a budget, then there is automatically a new election to try and resolve the situation.

Ron, we're not paying our bills. What makes you think we are? The default would have been a payment on the interest, not the loan. The past several times Bernanke offered bonds (that's how we finance government) no one bought. So he "bought" them. They're added to the debt.

It was politics. Mr. Obama was videoed playing Grand Theft Auto V during the time that he did not meet with Republicans. A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. Consider Wall Street did not panic, in fact it went up during this time. Not only that, but not one nation demanded payment. No one was worried about it, except a few democrats.

Before you demand change, you'd be wise to consider what it will do to the democrats when they are the minority. They've lost 2014 & 2016. How? Because Mr. Obama's approval ratings are so low that he'll not get another bill passed. The democrats in office are abandoning him to save their own elections.

good Q. we must have the power to strapped them down