It can’t be reiterated often enough: If John Boehner puts a temporary spending bill on the House floor, without any anti-Obamacare stunts in it, it would pass.

He can do it today and avoid a shutdown, or he can do it in a few days or weeks and end a shutdown. It’s up to him.

Senate rebuffs House’s anti-Obamacare temporary spending bill. The final vote was 54-46.

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) exasperated with House Tea Partiers “giddy” over impending shutdown.

Tea Partier Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT): “I don’t care what John McCain thinks” about shutting down the government over Obamacare. Video.

Sen. Collins denounces GOP Obamacare strategy.

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) on impending shutdown: “We’ve very excited. It’s exactly what we wanted, and we got it.”