There are pages and pages and pages of stuff analyzing Republican strategy and Republican motives. They're in the pockets of the plutocrats, they carry grudges from the time of the Confederacy, they want to shrink government and drown it in a bath-tub,....
All of the above may be true, but a simple truth is obscured by this discussion.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.The forty-plus times the House has voted to repeal Obamacare, and the repeated rebuffed demands during the government shutdown indicates one fact more important than anything else you may know about the Republicans, and that is that they are insane.