Why Not Let Obama Shut Down The Government?

From John Hinderaker at Powerline Blog:

President Obama has announced that if the Republican Congress does not include $500 million for Planned Parenthood in the upcoming continuing spending resolution, he will veto the legislation and shut down the government. (Of course, for better or worse, only a small part of the federal government will actually be laid off and cease operations.) To which I say: is that a threat or a promise?

From this guy, it's a promise.

I can’t follow the logic. Apparently they think that Republicans will be blamed by voters when the President vetoes legislation funding the government’s operations. That seems inconceivable to me. If Republican politicians are so bad that they can’t make clear to voters who closed down the government, we need new politicians.

I agree, FIRE the Republican Leadership in Congress!

Ted Cruz makes this point forcefully in Politico:

Thus, President Obama’s position is that, if Congress doesn’t give a half-billion dollars to a politically favored private organization currently under criminal investigation, then he will shut down the entire government.
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If Republican leadership actually tried to win, we would vote on one bill after another funding specific parts of the federal government. Fund it all, and let Democrats explain why they are filibustering funding for vital services to give $500 million to a private organization under criminal investigation.

BOOM!

That should be the response to every question about the shutdown threat by The Dear Leader!

This proves what a smart thinker and strategerist Ted Cruz is.

Instapundit adds:

Well, we do – particularly when the GOP has never suffered at election time* over a government shutdown. (Which aren’t even real shutdowns.)

* Even after the 1995 shutdown, which GOP leaders look back on in much the same way your grandparents think of the Great Depression. But Republicans “lost only nine House seats, a relatively trivial number after a net gain of 54 in 1994. They actually added to their majority in the Senate, picking up two seats in the 1996 cycle.”