Yeah! That'll get those stinkin' Democrats! They'll never know what hit 'em!!
Congress, without a quorum in the House, would be paralyzed. Ideally, this would coincide with a short extension of appropriations through, say, January 15, so that Democrats would be left running the entire government when it shut down. Blame the Republican heroes? How? They’re not even there! The massive inconveniences would clearly be the fault of Kenyan anticolonial ideology.
For once, conservatives wouldn’t have to worry about their leaders selling them out. How could they, when they weren’t even there?