Republicans Possibly Responsible for Government Shut Down?

In a recent article posted in Think Progress, Annie-Rose Strasser and her colleagues explain how shutting the government down due to Obamacare would be a mistake on the behalf of 49 republicans. Annie gives a great deal of detailed information explaining how these republicans are against the funding of Obamacare, but she does not give as much information as to why these republicans are against Obamacare. This leaves the reader free to assume the reason that they are against this government program because they see it as a waste of money however, if they see it as a waste of money then why don’t they make the same amount of effort to shut down other government programs listed in the article. This article is in intended to be read by other opposing republicans to help them realize that refusing to fund Obamacare unless the law ensures otherwise would only result in failure to the economy. She intends that after reading the article the republicans to realize that once the government is shut down, the US will be further in debt, with fewer national parks open and other government funded recreational programs; solving nothing. The authors give great details explaining that 46% of people would blame Congressional Republicans for the government shut down with the statistics being supported by CNN. Moreover she gives a list of representatives that are advising to defund Obamacare to help back up her statement. It seems her prediction is that if the republicans had gotten their way with the defunding of Obamacare, the government would have successfully been shut down, and the republicans would be to blame; losing their votes of winning a republican presidency and adding to their humiliation.