The laundry list that the GOP is asking for in order to get a mere six to eight more weeks of Gov't funding is pretty much a do over of the 2008 and 2012 elections.
That is not negotiating in good faith.
Right now you have 49 Tea party members who represent
roughly 7 percent of the US population holding up the Gov't over a law that jumped through as many hoops as could be imagined. I think Boehner could get a clean CR passed easily with moderate Republicans and the Dems. If he does that though it is probably the end of his Speakership and he is too chickenshit to go for it. Also you could end up with someone even worse as speaker. Personally I think the moderate House Republicans, the small few that there are should get together with the Dems and hold a coup. Tell Boehner we will support you in a floor vote for speaker if you take a clean CR to the table that actually funds the gov't for a significant portion of time. If you wont' do it we will vote you out and vote in another Republican as speaker. Yes that would be guaranteed primary challenges for all the Reps that did it but I think some of them would survive or they could take a shot at running as an independent.
You can say that this is really about the budget but that is just frankly a lie. The GOP and specifically the Tea party wing of the GOP has made this all about the ACA. The CR that the senate put out is already a compromise very close to the original Ryan budget.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...publicans-already-won-on-the-cr-in-one-graph/
The senate asked for conference committees over and over six months ago to work out an agreement on the budget and the House rejected them all. They bought into the crazy that this would work and I really think it is just going to kill them. People were ambivalent about the ACA, most polls track support as slightly negative but when asked about individual parts of law they are very positive, and he GOP had a chance to really make hay out over every little hiccup in getting the exchanges. Now instead of doing that over the next few days you are going to see poll after poll that shows Americans do not like the idea of one small minority of the minority party shutting down the Gov't in a Quixotian attempt to kill a law that the Supreme court upheld.
I got all the district data from here
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjYj9mXElO_QdHZCbzJocGtxYkR6OTdZbzZwRUFvS3c#gid=0
I had to estimate population for districts as of course census.gov is down and not all districts had population data at other sources. I used 650,000 as an estimate for the population data of districts that I could not quickly find data for.