Graham tells House to follow Boehner

Sen. Lindsay Graham, one of the loudest internal critics of the Republican strategy to shutdown the government over Obamacare funding, said Sunday he hoped his House colleagues would follow the lead of their speaker.

"As a party, we got to do some soul-searching," the South Carolina Republican said on CBS's "Face The Nation." "And I hope our House colleagues will follow the lead of Speaker [John] Boehner. The only way the government can shut down is not what Senator Cruz says, but what the House does. So, President Obama, work with John Boehner and Harry Reid. Senator Reid, stop moving the goalposts on Speaker Boehner. To my House Republican colleagues: Work with John Boehner. He's a good man. If we do all this, we won't shut the government down again."

Boehner, a Republican from Ohio, initially didn't want to force a shutdown over Obamacare, but adopted the strategy after feedback from the House Republican Conference. Cruz was encouraging Republicans to follow that strategy.