I agree. By going along with these continuing spending resolutions, the House has relinquished its ability to use its power of the purse strings. Whether they did it of their own accord or whether they were duped into it by the dems, they're stuck in it for the time being. Shutting down the government is not the way to use the power of the purse strings.
Hopefully the House will get its act together in January and start passing individual appropriations bills. Then they can use their power effectively.
There is no need to get any act together in January, since this action funds Obamacare and amnesty through September. Nearly half of the two-year cycle will be encumbered by a previous Congress with a Democrat controlled Senate and Republicans in the House who enabled them.
If that doesn’t make you mad, it ought to.