Before modification by Joel at 28/09/2013 11:29:59 PM
I know it is hard to grasp but we didn't elect a king and there are still three branches of government and Congress is doing nothing more than exercising the power given to them by the Constitution. Elections matter and the republicans won a lot more of them in the last one so even if they don't control the Oval Office they do control spending. Sorry that reality is so hard to grasp for the Obama followers.
Yeah, there are three branches of government:
The Legislative, which passed Robamacare in 2009, the Executive, which signed it in 2009 and the Judicial, which ruled it constitutional in 2012.
A small faction of a minority is trying to bankrupt the nation just to overrule ALL THREE democratically chosen branches of government; sure sounds like a coup.
Elections matter? This is the platform Republican ran and LOST on in 2012: Dems got 5 million more presidential votes, several million more Senate votes and even half a million more House votes. Obama was re-elected, Dems netted +2 Senate seats and even netted +30 House seats; only gerrymandering in the GOPs 2010 wave prevented Dems having the same majority in the House they have in the Senate. "We are not a majority even in our own party, and voters repudiated our plan in the last election; do it anyway, or else." Yeah, TOTALLY not a non-violent coup attempt. 
Yet this is not even a case of the GOP House majority attempting something over the objections of the Senates Dem majority: Not only Senate but HOUSE Republicans oppose reversing federal law by shutting down government. The GOP House Speaker has been taking fire from the Tea Party in both chambers essentially for opposing economic Armageddonthe as the cost of defunding Robamacare. I STILL would not be surprised if he just said, "To Hell with you idiots; I will go find a few dozen Dems to vote for a RATIONAL continuing resolution." We may well be watching the Tea Party commit high profile suicide however this ends.