The Government Shutdown  Heckuva Job, Wacko Birds: You’ve Shut
Down the U.S. Government  So the ‘suicide caucus’ of the GOP
just shut down the government to reflect the ‘will of the
American people’? No, it turns out we didn’t want that. They’re
delusional, says Kirsten Powers.  The GOP “suicide caucus”, led
by proud “wacko bird” Sen. Ted Cruz, was, not surprisingly,
spawned from a faulty premise.   Video screenshot  Watch
highlights from "wacko bird" Sen. Ted Cruz's faux-filibuster
against Obamacare.  In a widely touted USA Today/Pew Research
survey, 53 percent of Americans expressed disapproval of
Obamacare. But of those 53 percent, just half (or 23 percent of
the total population) said they wanted Republicans to do what
they could to kill the health-care law. A Kaiser Family
Foundation poll asked, “Would you say you approve or disapprove
of cutting off funding as a way to stop some or all of the law
from being put into place?” Defunding was opposed 56-37. When
the possibility of a government shutdown was f