Tancredo doesn't think establishment Republicans will torpedo Neville like they did him

I love this cute double-talk from Neville that when the federal government doesn't have an approved budget and it runs out of funds … or if the government bumps up against the debt limit due to fiscal brinksmanship by Congress … that any shutdown which then happens is all just a partisan head fake by the Democrats.   

Last time this happened, the GOP was out in force in the media claiming this.   They asserted that keeping the government open just a question of spending "priorities", and that the shutdown was some sort of scare tactic and filthy political theater that President Obama concocted to punish the deserving public.  Particularly in the case of delaying Social Security checks, or refusing entry to World War II veterans who wanted to visit the monuments on the National Mall.   

Because we all know that government organizations don't really need money to operate.  And that a government shutdown is just a "false premise" – right, Neville?   

If a shutdown or debt default is a "false premise", why does it make for such a brutal bargaining chip?   And why does it rattle world financial markets so much?  

On the flip side, the not-so-funny thing is that if President Obama had somehow issued executive orders keeping the federal government open, the GOP's radicals would have been enraged – and they would have called it tyranny and an abuse of power, and moved for impeachment.   I was reading the right-wing blogs at the time.  They were alternately getting enraged and salivating at the prospect.