Republicans' Shutdown Strategy Not Winning Any Fans  GOP effort
to derail Obamacare shutters government   The Hartford Courant
6:23 PM EDT, October 1, 2013   Americans are overwhelmingly
opposed to shutting down the government as a tactic to derail
the Affordable Care Act, even though they are divided on the law
itself, a new national Quinnipiac University poll has found.
Indeed, 72 percent of respondents oppose the tactic of using a
shutdown to block implementation of the health care law.  That
should tell House Republicans that they aren't fooling anyone.
They who proclaim strict fealty to the Constitution are
attempting to sabotage it, to thwart the process, to change a
law by holding the government hostage.  Neither the Senate nor
President Barack Obama are caving to the bully tactic, so the
result is a shameful and completely unnecessary shutdown of the
government.  Most experts think the consequences won't be
disastrous if the Beltway kabuki play ends quickly. But if it
goes on for several weeks, some