Who is really threatening to "shut down the government"?

A huge Democrat talking point right now is that Republicans are threatening to shut down the federal government if they don't get their way about de-funding Obamacare.

Typical is this statement by Democrat Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark who is running for the U.S. senate:  

At the urging of extremists on the right flank, House Republicans have voted 42 times to repeal President Obama’s health care law… Now, extremist House Republicans are threatening to shut down the government if they don’t get their way.

Extremist House Republicans seem dug in on their misguided attempt to bring the gears of government to a halt....

Perfect! Not only does it scare little old ladies, it shows the Rethuglicans as mean and selfish.  What a hit! 

But wait...didn't the House just pass a "continuing resolution" to keep the government running?

Why yes, yes they did.

Which clause in that bill threatened to "shut down the government"?

Uh...there isn't one.

But wait...Booker just said--as ALL the Dems and the media are now saying--that the Republicans are threatening to shut down the gummint!  Dems wouldn't lie about something so frightening, would they?  So where's the threat to "shut down the government" that Booker and every other Dem figure is scare-talking about?

There's a threat all right.  But it comes from Barack H. Obama.  Who has threatened to veto any spending bill that de-funds Obamacare.

But wait...wouldn't vetoing a bill that provides funding for the continuied operation of the federal gummint shut the government down?

Why yes, yes it would.

But...but...but then how can the Democrats say...with the full, uncritical support of the Lying Media...that  *Republicans* have threatened to shut the thing down?

Silly voter!  You aren't sophisticated or nuanced enough to understand such things.  But because we Dems believe in helping the less-fortunate, we'll try one more time:  "It's the Repubs' fault because our wonderful prezzy *warned 'em* that he'd veto any spending bill that didn't include funding for Obamacare.  But the spending bill passed by the House did that anyway.  So it's *their fault* that he'll be forced to veto the bill.

"Don't think of it as shutting down the government, but just doing what he warned 'em he'd do if they crossed his 'red line.'  Got it?"

Let me see:  House Republicans pass a bill to keep government operating. Obama promises to veto it--which would shut it down.  So Dems and the media blame the Republicans for threatening to shut down the government?

Insanity.