At times, there seems to be an ongoing debate amongst conservative members of congress on who or what they hate the most: President Obama or the federal government. There is no doubt that they dislike both with great passion, and want each to fail. Back when Mitch McConnell said that his top political priority was to make Obama a one term president, he could have just as easily meant to make the government implode — in order to prove once and for all that it has no right to regulate business, help the neediest, or do anything other than enforce the law and defend it from other nations — in other words, a night-watchman state.

Republicans in Congress are threatening to shut down government (again) over Planned Parenthood