Why the Republicans SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT - Really, the truth slipped out.

"We’re not going to be disrespected ... We have to get something out of this. And I don’t know what that even is." — Rep. Marlin Stutzman, a conservative Republican from Indiana, on why the House GOP won't just send a "clean" spending bill to the Senate.

They have no end game, besides trying to hang on until the upcoming negotiations on the debt ceiling in the hopes that will give them more ammunition.  And in the meantime police officers go without pay, children go without food, and cancer victims go without medical assistance.

http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-reason-for-government-shutdown.html