The Best Bet

As the shutdown continues and loathing of the Republican party grows steadily, it would seem that Boehner would look to the future of the country and the impending default crisis (and the ensuing aftermath) and just agree to a budget that funds healthcare. If, as the Republicans have been crying for ever, Obamacare is more damaging to the healthcare of the nation than the current arrangement, it will not take long for the American people to realize it and they will do exactly as the Republicans want them to (i.e. vote Republican in the next congressional election cycle and return control of the Senate to the Republicans, thus killing the healthcare bill legitimately and as grown adults, not the children everyone is acting like now). If, however Obamacare is the idea that Democrats believe it to be, then the Republicans will have done the right thing in allowing their own personal hangups to be pushed aside for the good of the nation. Either way, this bullheaded ideal of holding out because they don't want to fund a law that was passed by both houses of Congress and has stood the test of the Supreme Court simply because they don't like it and believe it violates some non-elaborated moral standard is at best irresponsible, and at worst, an evil beyond compare (Standing ground for rational beliefs is commendable, this is not that). If they ever hope to regain control of congress and pass laws they believe will benefit the American people, they must show that their interest is not narcissistic but rather the interest of the people and their economy. The best bet to do this is to pass a fully funded budget and let the people decide for themselves the benefits or liabilities of Obamacare.