I heard all that before except the shutdown didnt defund Obama-care as it was exempt from shutdowns.
So after that easy to predict failure then the House GOP sent separate funding bills to Senate that had zero to do with defunding Obama and talked about those instead of Obamacare, all while Obamacare rollout was failing but not in news.
And a shutdown did NOT make Reid and Obama blink and pass a Senate bill that defunds Obama, they were never going to do that even if the shutdown lasted a year.
A failure of execution. RINO collaborators opposed Cruz.