As Republican Congressman Sean Duffy demonstrates with these words, nothing says you're crazy like trying to convince people you're not crazy by citing all the crazy things you've done as evidence of your sanity:
“I’m proud of the caucus in this sense – we first proposed the president a defunding of Obamacare, then we actually all moved and said let’s do a one year delay of Obamacare. The most recent offer before the government shutdown was let’s put the president, Obama in Obamacare along with the administration,” he said. “It was actually a pretty reasonable proposal that we sent over to the president and he said no. That’s what caused the shutdown.”
To recap, Sean Duffy says Republicans are reasonable because after they delivered a ransom note demanding that Obamacare be defunded, they delivered a ransom note demanding a delay, and then they delivered a ransom note about where the administration should get its insurance, and if President Obama just would have accepted one of those ransom notes, we never would have had this government shutdown, so Republicans were reasonable because they would have been willing to reopen government before today if their ransom demands had been met.
Got it. How. Very. Reasonable.
Of course, in order to make those "reasonable" demands, Republicans had to block the full House from voting on legislation to reopen government, something that they did repeatedly. If they'd let that legislation move forward, government would have reopened without putting the country through the last two weeks of nonsense.
And, now that House Republicans appear to be on the verge of finally letting Democrats and the handful of sane GOPers in Congress vote to end this mess, it's clear that Republicans aren't going to get anything for their efforts—and they knew it all along. So not only are they not very reasonable, they've got no clue about when to fold a bluff.