Because hats.
There's one contingent of people who are happy that House Republicans are apparently willing to shut down the Department of Homeland Security, and as it happens, they're all meeting nearby.
At CPAC!
[M]any conservatives here in the grand ballroom, sporting "Run Ben Run" t-shirts that encourage retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson to embark on a presidential campaign, and waving popsicle sticks with Cruz's face glued on, don't believe shutting down DHS matters. What they want is for someone to stand up against Obama.
"Let's take the pain and preserve the Constitution," says Chris Phillips. "If you get blamed for upholding the Constitution, that is a worthy cause."
These people who are currently midway through a three-day orgy of pants-wetting over ISIS being in their bedroom closets don't have much faith that Boehner will
really go through with shutting down the department, however.
"Everybody is looking at Boehner to see what he is going to do, and he won't say, but we know he's going to cave too," says CPAC attendee Pat Cashman. "They should have kicked him out when they had the chance."
So there you go. If Boehner shuts down Homeland Security he'll get the begrudging respect of a bunch of people wearing old-timey hats, and if he averts the shutdown, those same people will hate him.