Boner is spewing GOPe talking points.
Your points are excellent.
Without the shutdown and associated images of old vets facing barricades at memorials, and Mt Rushmore closed off, Republicans would not have taken both houses.
True. And maybe Boehner did not want to set off anti government riots or confrontations. Maybe the ultimate political solution will come and it will work out for the best. However, at the time it was frustrating and bizarre.
The country was (and still is) being ruled against the will of the majority of the people.