I am so, so sorry for that cheeto-colored fucknut from my state.

I'm just hoping the shutdown goes badly enough for House Republicans that they won't make us default on our debt as well. Because that would be a hundred times worse than a shutdown.

I think the debt limit will be reached around the 17th?

I think the debt limit will be reached around the 17th?

The debt limit bullshit actually makes me the angriest. It's not for future spending; it's to cover spending that was already done on things that this bunch of fuckneck Congress members ALREADY APPROVED.

RAAAAAAAAAAGE.

cheeto-colored fucknut

Hee.

They're all fuckheads.

I saw a fabulous clip last night of Christopher Hayes schooling Fox News on the actual ACA. Fox is selling the most ridiculous lies about the law, it's amazing. Including the assertion that the law has failed because only 1% of people without insurance have been covered so far. Hayes pointed out this was because the law hasn't gone into effect yet.

Not enough face-palm in the world!

RAAAAAAAAAAGE.

I wish I had something more coherent to say than this, but I'm all about the primal scream right now.

Perhaps Ted Cruz will carry on with this tantrum until he actually does hold his breath until he passes out, at which point the grown-ups can move in and take over?

I suppose I should apologize for Ted Cruz, but Texas is a really big state, and that's a slippery slope.

I suppose I should apologize for Ted Cruz, but Texas is a really big state, and that's a slippery slope.

Like.

Timelies all!

I'm a "non-essential" federal employee.

Fuckers.

I'm soothing myself with a little Charlie Pierce.

In the year of our Lord 2010, the voters of the United States elected the worst Congress in the history of the Republic. There have been Congresses more dilatory. There have been Congresses more irresponsible, though not many of them. There have been lazier Congresses, more vicious Congresses, and Congresses less capable of seeing forests for trees. But there has never been in a single Congress -- or, more precisely, in a single House of the Congress -- a more lethal combination of political ambition, political stupidity, and political vainglory than exists in this one, which has arranged to shut down the federal government because it disapproves of a law passed by a previous Congress, signed by the president, and upheld by the Supreme Court, a law that does nothing more than extend the possibility of health insurance to the millions of Americans who do not presently have it, a law based on a proposal from a conservative think-tank and taken out on the test track in Massachusetts by a Republican governor who also happens to have been the party's 2012 nominee for president of the United States.