This is a slow motion coup d'etat: Obama is unperturbed by Dem losses not just because he's an arrogant, narcissistic ass but because he understands that he doesn't need the Congress to govern.
The Fed gov will continue to collect 3 trillion with a 'T' tax dollars, and he will spend them any way he wants.
The Pubs can't shutdown the gov, because of all the mouths suckling at the Federal teat, from grandma on Social Security, to defense contractors, to student loans to welfare queens, just about every family in America gets something from Uncle Sam.
The power of the purse is a quaint notion in such circumstances, not only because Obama is a shameless criminal but because the political pressure to keep the funding going is impossible to resist, and as long as Obama has any cash at all, he will spend it the way he likes.