At this point: the GOP Shutdown is Driven by Pure TeaParty Hate

     Ok, so we all know the TeaPatry kooks hate: government, America, democracy, voters, women, poor people, education, research, science, medicine, reading, facts, Medicare, Medicaid, Feeding the poor, and above all ... providing medicine for the working poor ... and that last one is, in their warped little minds, the reason why the TeaParty threatened, and then did, shutdown the entire US Government.

     But, they lost.  

    Oh sure, the TeaParty did shutdown government in exchange for: defunding, delaying and re-writing the ACA but since the Continuing Resolution will never, ever, ever include any of those things .. they lost.

    Therefore, at this point, the continuation of the GOP shutdown is driven by pure TeaParty hate as there is absolutely no rational reason to keep the US government closed.

    The TeaParty members know that they lost.  They know their bizarre, irrational demand to shutdown the US government in exchange for getting rid of the ACA is never going to happen.  So why not just pass a clean CR and open up the entire US Government?

Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY)

“This is not just about Obamacare anymore,”

~TeaParty member Rep. Michael Grimm

   
Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN)

“We’re not going to be disrespected.  We have to get something out of this. And I don’t know what that even is.”

~TeaParty member Rep. Marlin Stutzman

     There's our answer, the TeaParty's hate is so deep, they now want to keep government closed in exchange for .... ???? .... they don't even know what ... they have no idea what they want in exchange for opening up the US government.

And for the delusional TeaParty hate:
Michele Bachmann (R-??) [not sure what Bachmann is or where she's really from]

"This is about the happiest I've seen members in a long time, because we see we are starting to win this dialogue on a national level,"

    Yes, because nothing makes a TeaBagger-Partyer happier and more giddy than to have hungry poor kids go without food and roughly 800,000 workers mosey along with no income.  That should not surprise anyone since, after all, the GOP shutdown occurred because the TeaParty wanted to deny the working poor access to basic healthcare.