Gov't Shutdown? Bring It On | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Sadly, the more important issue is extending the debt limit, which calls into question the full faith and credit of the United States. Cruz can be shut down with a cloture vote - and unless they change the rules so that states that Republicans actually win get a bigger voice in the nomination than those they lose - he will not be the nominee. I suspect that a continuing resolution and a debt limit extension will quietly pass, even if Boehner ignores the Hastert rule to do so.
The reason the GOP wants to repeal Obamacare is not because they disagree with how it works - it is their idea. What they don't like is that it is funded by an expansion of taxes on the wealthy. This is exactly the reason that they refused to deal and almost shut down the full faith and credit of the U.S. in 2011 - because they wanted to extract a promise that taxes on the wealthy would also be made permanent. Eventually, they got Grover Norquist to shut up and accept the inevitable (we have not heard much from him since).
What we see here is preening Come late September it will stop.
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