

@robertcostaNRO Boehner lets 'em keep shutdown in exchange for 6wk DL ext MT @BenjySarlin Labrador says he backs DL increase to continue fight against Ocare



@markos So shutdown IS the GOP's fault! RT @robertcostaNRO: Boehner lets 'em keep shutdown in exchange for 6wk DL ext

Republicans have been hilariously trying to lay blame for their shutdown on Democrats. It's not a tactic that has worked, given the brutal anti-GOP lean in recent polling . But in today's GOP caucus meeting, it was the teabaggers who fought House Speaker John Boehner for the right to keep the government shuttered. And National Review's Robert Costa, who has reported from inside the GOP caucus better than anyone else, has confirmed it.

It's their shutdown, and they don't want to give it up.