Who was winning in government shutdown?

Who was winning in government shutdown? The answer might surprise you.For it was John Boehner(the saner)who saved his speaker,by letting fools have there way,other words he used the strategy give your opponents enough rope and they will hang themselves and is what Tea Party people did,they took Ted Cruz's foolish concept of shut down government unless Obamacare is defunded.Now think stupid this idea was,how was non starter from beginning for guy who have sign to it was named Obama and he wasn't about to defund Obamacare,but idiots from Tea Party bought into it,but soon learn that it was losing proposition just like Boehner said,but like little children they had learn the lesson the hard way.Now Boehner can deal with Obama in rational way and win points with public to keep his majority in the House despite Ted Cruz's effort to lose the House to the Democrats.