Heritage Action CEO, who led the crusade to shutdown the government unless Obamacare was defunded or delayed: “Well, everybody understands that we’ll not be able to repeal this law until 2017.”

For everyone who’s wondered about what whackadoo alternative universe the country’s fallen into these last two weeks, with Jim DeMint’s Heritage Action Fund and Senate Conservative’s Fund driving things forward, let’s remember this video from days after the 2012 election. Seriously. Just a moment. It will put it all in perspective. Watch.

A historical shutdown crisis you may not know about, involving Rutherford B. Hayes and the KKK.