Here we go again, folks. The Republican Party’s plot to hold the nation hostage in order to kill the Affordable Care Act is not working out very well for them, but are they going to climb down off the ledge now and get back to work?

No, silly! Of course not. They’re going to drag out this ordeal as long as possible, because… well, who really knows why? GOP’s New Strategy: Avert Default but Keep Government Shut.

The GOP’s idea man, Erick Erickson

Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced Thursday that the House will move forward with a six-week debt limit extension after pitching the idea to his Republican conference during a closed-door meeting.

The plan would sustain the government shutdown — now in its 10th day — while temporarily averting a catastrophic debt default by authorizing continued borrowing through Nov. 22. Conservative activists like Heritage Action’s chief and RedState blogger Erick Erickson paved the way for this plan this week by calling on the GOP to wage their fight against Obamacare on the government funding measure, rather than the debt ceiling.

“What we’re going to do is to offer the president, today, the ability to move a temporary increase in the debt ceiling,” Boehner told reporters after the meeting, “and an agreement to go to conference on the budget for his willingness to sit down and discuss with us a way forward to reopen the government and to start to deal with America’s pressing problems.”

That’s right — the big-brained idea man responsible for this new strategy is none other than Erick “Justice Souter is a goat-f*cking child molester” Erickson. This, right here, is why the GOP is in such a ridiculous mess. Their agenda is being set by the likes of Erickson and the hate propagandists of breitbart.com.