We all know Obama shut down the US government for fascist socialist Muslim reasons, but I persist in my childish belief that many of the Congressional Republicans are straight-up clowns.
More here in WMxdesign’s GOP Clown College Flickr set.
the biggest clown is ted cruz
It may just be me but Tea Party and Republican supporters look extremely constipated.
Mr David and Charles Koch since you are the founding fathers, you need to fulfill your parental responsibilities of providing minimum health care for your off-spring. So please have your Tea Party reps pass a bill making constipation relief a mandatory service for the Congress and Senate.
Fingers crossed something doesn't meltdown while they're away.
That pesky government shutdown is still causing all kinds of problems, and this one's a doozy. Starting Thursday, some 90 percent of the workers who watch over America's 100 nuclear reactors will be furloughed. Since these guys are sort of the first line of defense in a nuclear disaster, that's really bad news.
As of this moment the estimated unpaid salaries is $1.59 TRILLION and estimated food vouchers unpaid is $110 BILLION.
Dan Delany took a simple look at furloughed employees due to the government shutdown. There are tickers for duration, estimated unpaid salary, and estimated food vouchers unpaid, but the main view is the interactive tree map that shows furloughed proportions by department.
Data was nicely collated into one spreadsheet from a bunch of government-released PDF files (of course), and the code for the page is available on Github. [Thanks, Dan]
Stephen Colbert plays 'NOT A GAME (Government Shutdown)'
LMAO!!!
The Democrats are a donkey. Republicans are an elephant. And the Tea Party is a bug up the elephant’s ass
How can food safety not be non-essential?
Late-breaking news, and I’ll update as I find out more: While the government is shut down, with food-safety personnel and disease detectives sent home and forbidden to work, a major foodborne-illness outbreak has begun. This evening, the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the US Department of Agriculture announced that “an estimated 278 illnesses … reported in 18 states” have been caused by chicken contaminated with Salmonella Heidelberg and possibly produced by the firm Foster Farms.
I know. I know. The Tea Party and Republican's hate big government. But the vote was 407 to ZERO. Not a single Tea Party or Republican voted against even on principle. So it's ironic that the Tea Party and Republican's shutdown the government AND gave workers a PAID holiday.
The shutdown has cost the economy approx. $1.5 trillion so far. It doesn't make any sense. Maybe it's just me since I didn't graduate from Harvard and Princeton.
The House, in a rare Saturday session, voted unanimously to guarantee that federal workers will receive back pay once the government shutdown ends, offering a promise of relief if not an actual rescue to more than 1 million government employees either furloughed or working without pay.
Before continuing, contemplate what Plato said,
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
The fact is that the Tea Party had been planning to shutdown since 2010!
So who are those hardliners? To create this list, we started with a roster that the Senate Conservatives Fund, a group aligned with Ted Cruz, created of representatives who were allied with them. We cross-checked it with the list of members who signed an August letter by Rep. Mark Meadows demanding that Boehner use a shutdown as a threat to defund Obamacare, and against other public statements this week. It's not a comprehensive roll — there’s no official “wacko bird” caucus that keeps a register — but it's a window into the small but powerful group of men and women in the House of Representatives who brought the federal government to a standstill.
Unbelievable
Dave Schweikert, “This is my idea of fun.”
Marlin Stutzman, “We aren't going to be disrespected. We have to get something out of this. And I don’t know what that even is.”
Tom Massie, "It’s just not that big of a deal."
John Culberson, “The whole room [said]: 'Let's vote!' I said, like 9/11, 'Let's roll!”
Marsha Blackburn, “There is some good news out of the shutdown, the EPA can't issue new regulations.”
Michele Bachmann, “This is about the happiest I’ve seen members in a long time because we’ve seen we’re starting to win this dialogue on a national level.”
Paul Broun, “[The Democrats] need to look in the mirror, because they're the ones to blame. They're the ones that shut the government down."
Tim Huelskamp, "Most Americans realize the government shutdown has no impact on their daily life. They got their mail today; they're going to get their Social Security check."
Based on the trajectory, Tropical Storm/Hurricane Karen is going slam through a majority of Tea Party / Republican states!
As squabbles in the US capital drag on, a powerful weather pattern will scatter a phalanx of threats across the country. And the combination of hobbled government and natural disaster is increasing the risk to Americans.
Here’s exactly why Friday will be a big weather day in America:
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As potential natural disasters loom, the American government is shut down because of a budget dispute. As part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s mission to “protect life and property,” critical civil servants such as weather forecasters must remain at work—without pay —while support staff and other “non-essential” personnel are being sent home.
