Shorter Ponnuru: "We'd get caught!"

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-26/drop-the-disastrous-plan-to-defund-obamacare.html

Ponnuru:

The plan is to oppose any bill to fund the government or increase the debt limit that also provides money for putting the health-care law in place. Because Republicans control the House, Democrats can’t continue borrowing or paying for government operations without Republican support. So, conservatives say, Republicans should insist on defunding Obamacare as the price of that support.
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if Republicans stay firm in this demand, the result will be either a government shutdown or a partial shutdown combined with a debt default.
Either would be highly unpopular, and each party would blame the other. The public, however, would almost certainly blame Republicans, for five reasons.
First, Republicans are less popular than the Democrats and thus all else equal will lose partisan finger-pointing contests.
Second, the executive has natural advantages over a group of legislators in a crisis atmosphere. Third, people will be naturally inclined to assume that the more anti-government party must be responsible.
Fourth, some Republicans will say that government shutdowns or defaults are just what the country needs, and those quotes will affect the image of all Republicans.
 And fifth, the news media will surely side with the Democrats.

So, according to Ponnuru, the reasons America will blame the GOP for this brilliant GOP plan to shut down government,  are:

1)  People are meanies and just don't like the GOP.
2)  Obama is a big meanie too.
3)  People are biased against republicans.
4)  Some Republicans will tell the truth.
5)  The news media will tell the truth.

Does that pretty much sum it up, Ramesh?