"Mr. Needham is not apologetic at all for the shutdown that he sees as regrettable but necessary collateral damage if it focuses the public on the horrors of the health-care law."

In other words the ends justifies the means. This is not how laws are to be repealed. If they're successful then a very dangerous precedent will be set. I'm admittedly not the biggest fan of Obamacare in its current form, but these tactics to effectively repeal it without due process unnerves me.