Sen. Mike Lee admitted that, despite all of the political posturing we've seen from him and his new best friend, Sen. Ted Cruz, the Republicans are not going to shut down the government in an attempt to defund "Obamacare." Now if we could just get the two of them off of my television screen in the endless loop of "defund Obamacare" ads they're running day in and day out, I'd be a happy camper.

Sen. Mike Lee: There will be no shutdown:

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), one of the leaders of the Defund Obamacare effort, assured Sunday that the effort will not lead to a government shutdown.

Asked point-blank about a potential shutdown, Lee said -- as he has said before -- that it won't come to that.

"No. We all know that the government is going to be funded. The questions is whether it will be funded with Obamacare or without," Lee said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Lee and other supporters of the Defund Obamacare movement have said they will not support a budget that would fund the president's signature health care law. If Republicans stand by that pledge and won't support a budget that funds Obamacare -- something Democrats are insisting on -- it seems increasingly possible that Congress won't pass a budget by the deadline at the end of the month.