You are forgetting one MAJOR element of the shutdown! NOTHING THE
PUBBIES COULD HAVE DONE TO AVOID IT!!! OBAMA WANTED THIS SHUTDOWN AND THE DAMNED GOVERNMENT WOULD HAVE BEEN SHUT DOWN NO MATTER WHAT! Our messaging was terrible ALL DEMS out there saying WE shut the ENTIRE government down NOT TRUE very little of Gov. was shut down!!
Technically Obama shut the gov down. So did Clinton in 1995. Problem is MSM will report that the GOP instigated the shutdown with unwinnable political demands. Maybe 60 years from now dispassionate historians will support your position, but we live in the here and now. MSM blames GOP and most in the public believes them.