we have to repeal this failure before it literally kills women, kills children, kills senior citizens. i just want to point out we still have women, we still have children, we still have senior citizens. >> ah, that was the great congresswoman michele bachmann, of course, and as the president noted it would be funny if it weren't so deranged. case in point speaker john boehner who remarkably and unusually was actually at work today claiming to have no interest whatsoever in shutting down the government. >> we have no interest in seeing the government shut down but we've got to address the spending problems that we haven't in this town. and so there will be options available to us, they're not going to be any speculation about what we're going to do or not do until the senate passes their bill. >> and one of those options is to ratchet up the budget fight even further.