Republican leaders don't mind Obamacare, so they are not going to shut the government down. They just want a few symbolic votes so they can claim to be against it. Meanwhile, they enable it.
Republicans who are generally conservative, but who have been in DC a while, may actually want to get rid of Obamacare. However, they know they don't have the gonads to withstand a media blitz during a shutdown, and that they will cave after a few days of sob stories, so they don't want to even get to that point. "Make it stop, make it stop". They are the whipped puppies caucus.
This is why the Republican party will die. It has no ability to translate conservative policies into action, and it does not appear that there is any way it ever will. I guarantee you that if Sarah Palin, or Ted Cruz, or Mike Lee, or Ronald Reagan, or I, were speaker of the house, Obamacare would be defunded. I would hold fast to the end of time before giving money to the end of American liberty.
Everybody here is saying it’s not worth a try, simply because we don’t have the perfect people in congress. I agree that most of them are awful, but instead of throwing up our hands and getting ready to sit down and trash these people before we drink our cup of hemlock,why don’t we write some emails and at least offer support for killing Obamacare?
Why are we all giving up and using this site to spread our hopelessness?