Given the consequences of the derailed House strategy to force Demo votes on measures to “defund” and “delay” ObamaCare, the president of one of the most well-funded grassroots organizations, Heritage Action, now concedes, “Everybody understands that we’re not going to be able to repeal this law until 2017, and that we have to win the Senate and win the White House.” Unfortunately the shutdown damage is done, but for the record, even the most novice of political observers could have predicted the Senate diversion and resulting Republican infighting would give Democrats an opening for a partial shutdown, which they would hang around Republican necks. And indeed they did. Some say there is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a donkey – the first kick being the 1995 shutdown. But hopefully those who forgot the first kick will remember this one!