The vote to reopen the government divided the Republicans into two groups:
The ones who were more afraid of a Tea-Party challenge in the primary voted nay.
The ones who were more afraid of a Democratic challenge in the general voted yea.
(Of course, there were some Tea-Party true believers who voted nay, and there may even have been some Republicans who voted yea because they thought that it was best for their country.)
Well, back in '12, I was part of an NDFA effort to support Coolidge against right-wing Republican Pete Roskam in the IL-06 CD. I liked Ms. Coolidge; I wasn't too impressed with the campaign itself.
Roskam, OTOH, must have been impressed with the campaign. He voted yea.
So, I'll count that as a partial win. We may not have got a Democrat in Congress by our efforts, but we got a Republican who is watching his back.