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publican governors eyeing the 2016 presidential race are pitching themselves as can-do politicians and highlighting records of achievement.
• Although unstated, their goal is clear -- draw a contrast with their prospective presidential challengers on Capitol Hill aligned with a vocal band of Republicans whose demands that Congress defund the health care law helped trigger the shutdown.
• "Republican governors are not going to take it anymore," says Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, among those state leaders and potential presidential candidates using the shutdown to try to position themselves as outsiders at a time of voter disgust

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