the defund obama care at any cost strategy that brought about the government shutdown debacle. this in spite of the fact that as he admitted as the shutdown was finally ending, needham always knew it was doomed. >> with a democrat in the white house and harry reid with the majority in the senate, what can you do? >> well, 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 we have to win the white house. >> everybody understands! as you might imagine, republican staffers who have been told by needham to jump off a cliff weren't too happy with his blase acknowledgement of the obvious, and now the knives are out. a nasty, little civil war is brewing inside the conservative movement that is detailed in an amazing article in "the new republic." one house aide said if nancy pelosi could write a check to them, she would. and others see them as willing to drive a truck off a cliff