REPUBLICAN SHUT DOWN planned Jan 2013 at Williamsburg, Virginia.

The Shut Down was planned after the re-election of President Obama.

the decision House Republicans made in January has set the party on the course it has followed since. If you want to grasp why Republicans are careening toward a potential federal government shutdown, and possibly toward provoking a sovereign debt crisis after that, you need to understand that this is the inevitable product of a conscious party strategy. Just as Republicans responded to their 2008 defeat by moving farther right, they responded to the 2012 defeat by moving right yet again. Since they had begun from a position of total opposition to the entire Obama agenda, the newer rightward lurch took the form of trying to wrest concessions from Obama by provoking a series of crises.

The first element of the strategy is a kind of legislative strike. Initially, House Republicans decided to boycott all direct negotiations with President Obama, and then subsequently extended that boycott to negotiations with the Democratic Senate. (Senate Democrats have spent months pleading with House Republicans to negotiate with them, to no avail.) This kind of refusal to even enter negotiations is highly unusual. The way to make sense of it is that Republicans have planned since January to force Obama to accede to large chunks of the Republican agenda, without Republicans having to offer any policy concessions of their own.

Republicans Shutting Down the Government is just carrying through with their plan.  Republicans insist on getting what they want without giving anything OR THEY SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT!  I think the plan is pretty dumb but I am not a Teabagger, what do I know.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/09/house-gops-legislative-strike.html