The congressional Republicans have overplayed the shutdown card. It's hard to believe they're still trying to use that threat at all, let alone to undo Obamacare. Really, there's a very good chance the Supreme Court will strike it down and nothing will need to be done by them, and they will probably win the White House and the Senate next year if things don't improve and they both fail to nominate a loon and fail to obviously tank the economy through intransigence.
If they were going to go the shutdown route, they should have pulled the trigger back in Spring. Instead they punted, threatened to do far worse damage to the country with a default, chickened out at the last minute (not without drawing some Democratic blood, though), and now they want to go at it again? Frankly, the biggest selling point in a Romney presidency is that maybe he'd keep these psychos under control. Failing that, seeing the Republicans eat each other alive would be fun. I doubt Romney would roll over and let Republican inferiors in the House run the country for him.
Anyway, there won't be a shutdown. This is just apocalyptic posturing to please the Tea Party. Nothing to see here. Moving on...
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