Senate kills the Republican House funding bill. It's Boehner's ball again.

Within minutes of the Senate opening for business today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid moved to reject the continuing resolution that would delay the implementation of Obamacare for one year that House Republicans passed in the wee hours of Sunday morning. It passed 54-46, the latest House gambit is dead, and now the government shutdown ball is back in the House's court.

Using this procedure allowed Reid to kill the House bill with a simple majority vote, leaving would-be House Speaker Ted Cruz no opportunity to block it. It also doesn't give the nominal House Speaker John Boehner much breathing room. He's now got to decide if he sticks with the crazies, or just relents to the growing number of his conference members who are tired of this and do not want to be blamed when the government shuts down.

The federal government will shut down unless the House passes a clean continuing resolution before midnight tonight. E-mail your House member now.