Cenk Uygur hosting from YouTube Space LA. Things are getting much worse for the GOP over the government shutdown. A new ABC/Washington Post poll shows public opinion of Republicans continuing to plummet. Usual DINO Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia sides with his party and says the Senate is closing in on a deal to end the shutdown. House procedural rules have been amended so that the majority leader, Representative Cantor of Virginia, is the only official who can bring a vote to reopen the government to the House floor. If a motion to reopen the government were brought to the floor now, the government would undoubtedly reopen. Louie Gohmert is caught on tape saying that if President Obama fails to fulfil his constitutional obligation of paying the government’s debt, he will be impeached. Defaulting on the debt is the position the Republican leadership is coercively putting the President in to by threatening refusing to raise the debt ceiling, leaving the President in a catch-22 of epic proportions.

The race for US Senate in New Jersey between Mayor Cory Booker and Steve Lonegan is heating up. Cory Booker exchanged a few harmless and meaningless tweets with a stripper. Rich Shaftan, a senior staffer on the Lonegan campaign, subsequently called Cory Booker’s sexuality into question accusing him of not pursuing the stripper hard enough. Shaftan’s quotes are hilarious. You can’t make this stuff up. Fox News’ Ed Henry walks out of a White House press briefing after not being selected by press secretary Jay Carney to ask a question. Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani women’s rights activist who was shot in the face by the Taliban for her efforts, courageously challenges President Obama’s use of drone strikes in a meeting at the White House.

The “Million Vet March” in DC, a gathering not even remotely close to a million veterans, is crashed by Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, and other Tea Partiers. Palin ironically calls out politicians for using vets as “pawns” in a “political game”.