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The reason for the government shutdown summed up in one candid Republican quote. Update!

"We’re not going to be disrespected ... We have to get something out of this. And I don’t know what that even is." — Rep. Marlin Stutzman, a conservative Republican from Indiana, on why the House GOP won't just send a "clean" spending bill to the Senate.

At this point, with more an more people learning that Obamacare is not the end of all civilization as we know it, the Republicans are simply fighting for the sake of fighting.

They have no end game, besides trying to hang on until the upcoming negotiations on the debt ceiling in the hopes that will give them more ammunition. And in the meantime police officers go without pay, children go without food, and cancer victims go without medical assistance.

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Update: I actually wrote this post fairly early in the evening yesterday, and at the time this one source was the only place I had seen reference to Rep. Stutzman's statement. (I had NO idea that the President had referenced the comment yesterday morning in his speech.)

However as the evening progressed I saw it repeated over and over again on Rachel Maddow's show, on the Last Word, and was even mentioned on The Daily Rundown this morning.

Since I wrote this post I have also since learned that Stutzman has attempted to walk it back:

“Yesterday, I carelessly misrepresented the ongoing budget debate and Speaker Boehner’s work on behalf of the American people. Despite my remarks it’s clear that the American people want both parties to come to the table to reopen the government, tackle this nation’s debt crisis, and stop ObamaCare’s pain.”

Nice try. No I think that the reason so many people zeroed in on this statement, including the President, is because it was an honest, exasperated response to just how boxed in the Republican party is feeling right now. Because remember in Republican-speak "misstatement" is just another word for "truth."

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