Shutdown Corner

So I have no insights about the politics of a government shutdown tomorrow–maybe it would be bad for Dems, maybe it would be bad for the GOP. If anything, my guess would be that shutting down the government over Obamacare could be hugely destabilizing (politically) and that the results are actually pretty unpredictable. (If this view was correct, though, then both sides would have incentive to avoid a shutdown. The GOP looks to have pretty good positioning for 2014; Dems want to try to preserve Obamacare. The status quo has a lot to offer both parties.)

That said, what I’m really struck by is the nearly unanimous chorus from the left about how awful a shutdown would be for Republicans. If they really think that the GOP will be devastated by a shutdown, then wouldn’t they be welcoming it, instead of lamenting all the awful, no-good extremists which have hijacked the party?

(That is, hijacked it in the wake of the last hijacking in 2012. And the one before that in 2010. Which came after the hijacking in 2008 and  . . .)