ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION<br/> <br />STORY: President Barack Obama blamed Republicans for an "ideological crusade" aimed at his healthcare program and urged lawmakers to vote to keep government operations running without conditions.<br/> <br />"They've shut down the government over an ideological crusade to deny affordable health insurance to millions of Americans," he said in remarks in the White House Rose Garden.<br/> <br />Obama told Congress: "Pass a budget. End the government shut down."<br/> <br />Up to one million federal workers were thrown temporarily out of work on Tuesday as the U.S. government partially shut down for the first time in 17 years in a standoff between Obama and congressional Republicans over healthcare reforms.<br/> <br />The stalemate closed museums and national parks and slowed everything from trade negotiations to medical research, while sparking new questions about the ability of a deeply divided Congress to perform its most basic functions.<br/> <br />However, the standoff di
