I agree. Shut it down until further notice. When you are going in the wrong direction. The first thing you need to do is stop moving.
Time to throw a bit of the Cloward Piven playbook on the Democrats. Hold the line for as long as it takes, even if the shutdown/slowdown lasts through 2014.
This is exactly the fight the Tea Party base of the Republican Party wants, and we would hold the House. That's enough to bring gridlock to Washington DC, and run out the clock on the Obama Administration.
Does anyone really think that Obama wants this for his last 3 years?
Financially, it will be great for reducing the deficit, and we'll find that many governmental agencies are not essential to the country.
They're already talking about doing short-term CR's to fund the federal government, so this is nowhere near Armageddon, despite what the MSM wants us to believe.