FFS= Fugitive from Sanity" - he is barking mad.

Right. Two simple things.   Maybe even Ding-dong and FFS can understand.

1. A proper NHS or even a single payer solution ( a la Kucinich - a sensible man) was not a possible solution.

Remember - "politics, the art of the possible"?

2. The alternative, at the time, to discussing a compromise on unemployment benefit was another shutdown.

WHICH BIT DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND? THE PROBLEM IS NOT OBAMA. IT IS THE REPUBLICAN AND TEA-POTTY WANKERS WHO WOULD RATHER DESTROY THE UNION THAN LET ANYTHING >ANYTHING< HE PROPOSES PASS.

Just like you two morons.