Another way to tell that Republicans deserve all the blame for the shutdown. (Updated)

They won't allow House Democrats to introduce a continuing resolution to come to the floor for a vote, stricken of any encumbrances trying to destroy the ACA.

In other words, the House would have the votes to pass a clean continuing resolution because they would have no choice to vote for it, but far-right Republicans won't let it come up for a vote.  Now, it should be obvious by now why they're afraid of a vote for a clean CR: It'll show that Republicans -- particularly Tea Party members and the Koch Brothers -- wasted all this time and money pretending as if they had a mandate to shut down the ACA.  They know that a clean CR would pass, but won't let it happen, at least not yet.

Meanwhile, the Affordable Care Act moves forward and, it turns out most Americans have been bamboozled by the media into believing that the Affordable Care Act is better than Obamacare.  And if you also believe that the ACA is better than Obamacare...uh...

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Update. WaPo notes:

A growing number of Republicans in the House — 19 as of late Wednesday night — say they would support a bill to fund the government that does not require changes in the health-care law. Democratic leaders say they could combine those votes with the votes of all 200 House Democrats to pass a “clean” bill and end the crisis.

Confirmation that blame lies squarely in Republicans, particularly John Boehner, for allowing the government shutdown to continue on.  Just think about it for a moment: In the last three years, House Republicans have voted over 40x to repeal in parts and in whole, the ACA.  They can't even bring themselves to vote once on a clean budget CR, let alone go to conference on the original House and Senate budgets passed last Spring.

You might have heard that House Republicans want to go to conference on a 3-month CR.   But since they won't drop the repeal / delay demands on the ACA (which by the way, is a smashing success with 2.8M people visiting the federal website on the first day!) the conference offer amounts to pointless grandstanding and ultimately an empty gesture -- a total waste of time so that Republicans can pretend that they tried to do something.

The worst part about all this?  In 14 days Treasury defaults, but long before that deadline comes, global equity markets will react with increasing negativity.  The predictions were too rosy; a 3-week government shutdown that overlaps with the threat of a Treasury default (even if Republicans avert a default), will cause much greater damage in Q4's GDP.

Republicans are playing with fire, and have already burned themselves; the only question is whether they get out alive.