End shutdown now -- you could, John Boehner

Speaker John Boehner could bring the government shutdown to an end today -- if he would.   Seventeen Eighteen Twenty Twenty-onec (and counting) House Republicans have said that they would vote for a "clean" bill that does not try to cripple Obamacare.    Add the Democrats, and that makes a majority, with a few votes to spare.

But he stubbornly refuses to bring such a bill to the House floor.

Why won't he do it?   Is he that beholden to (or scared of) the Tea Party?   Republicans are holding the country hostage to a minority obsession -- it's even a minority within the Republican party.

Enough.    Do it now.

Ralph