HUME: The idea that defunding Planned Parenthood against the wishes of a sitting president, with enough votes to sustain any vetoes he might cast, even if it leads to a government shutdown is a path to victory is crazy. Every time that we get down to this, if government closes, and it's always only a partial shutdown, the Republican party gets blamed because people want the government cut down perhaps but not shut down. The party's standing in the polls begins to sink like a rock. Disaffected Republicans like Karen would argue, “Oh if they had just stuck to their guns they'd win in the end.” There is no evidence to support that. No government shutdown, John Kasich to the contrary, has ever led to anything good for the Republicans. So it's a suicide mission.