Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz, Jimmy Dore, and Richard Eskow hosting from YouTube Space LA. It’s a power panel! A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows devastating results for the GOP. The GOP is unequivocally being blamed for the government shutdown and the failure of its resolution. President Obama’s approval rating has actually gone up amid the shutdown. The approval of the ACA has gone up as well. Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah, arguably the most conservative state in the US, is polling unfavorably also and yet he refuses to change his position. Rush Limbaugh thinks the GOP is about to “snatch defeat from the jaws of victory” despite the poll results. The power panel breaks it all down.

Bill O’Reilly, in an interview with Brit Hume, goes on a loony tirade against the “weasels” in the Obama administration for “stonewalling” over the government shutdown and inexplicably attacks Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel in the process. John Stossel hits the street to interview welfare recipients and plays a game of gotcha, asking shamelessly leading questions to reinforce his unempathic views of the poor. He then gets pats on the back from Fox and Friends for shedding light on the “culture of dependency”. In a letter to Republican Rep. Jack Kingston, Georgia resident Paul Kaplan humorously bellyaches over the “liberal” Los Angeles Dodgers beating the Atlanta Braves in the NLDS.