The cost of fighting

 Budgetary fights have turned into games of brinksmanship that go past the brink, and into shutdowns with the problem being that there is a faction that actually likes government shutdowns.  There is a faction that wants to force a default on the national debt by blowing past the debt ceiling.  It is that very same faction that has said it will never support McCarthy.  What does McCarthy think he is accomplishing with this?  Congress is not functioning.  Does he think this bothers them?  It only bothers them in that he is annoying them, but the concept of shutting down Congress is an idea that will strike them as a good idea in and of itself.