Don't Forget Who Caused the Shutdown: The Atlantic is Kicking Ass and Naming Names

[Fantastic Anarchist]

This is dated October 4th, but I think naming names and keeping a list is a great way to make sure that we do not forget who is responsible for causing misery to so many people.

So who are those hardliners? To compile 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.

Links in the original paragraph and in the source.

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Representative: Michele Bachmann

Home District: Stillwater, Minnesota

Quoted: “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.”

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Representative: Marsha Blackburn

Home District: Brentwood, Tennessee

Quoted: “There is some good news out of the shutdown, the EPA can't issue new regulations.”

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Representative: Louie Gohmert

Home District: Tyler, Texas

Quoted: "There are just so many broken promises that we need to slow this train wreck, this nightmare. It's time to put the skids on this thing and slow it down before more people get hurt."

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Representative: Tim Huelskamp

Home District: Fowler, Kansas

Quoted: "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."

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Representative: Steve King

Home District: Kiron, Iowa

Quoted: "The American people have rejected Obamacare. The president is willing to put all of that on the line to save his namesake legislation, which I think would go down in history as the largest political tantrum ever."

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Representative: Tom Massie

Home District: Garrison, Kentucky

Quoted: "It’s just not that big of a deal."

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Representative: Marlin Stutzman

Home District: Howe, Indiana

Quoted: “We aren't going to be disrespected. We have to get something out of this. And I don’t know what that even is.”

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And this list doesn't even include the king of them all, Ted Cruz.

More at link: The Atlantic

Feel free to add your own.

[onehandle]

1. ...

[okaawhatever]

4. Me thinks Ms. Blackburn had a little work done. Cheek implants perhaps? nt

[onehandle]

5. She's a plastic, for sure.

[mopinko]

22. who fucking cares?

how about you? shave your chest maybe, or hair plugs? so therefore your opinions are shit and your worth as a human being is diminished?
leave that shit out of it. nobody fucking cares.

[yellowcanine]

34. She has more plastic than a dept store mannequin.

[tomm2thumbs]

12. If only the Wizard had an extra brain in his bag for that particular ignoramus

Watching her on TV is truly the equivalent of dragging your nails on a chalkboard, while a metal file is being ripped from your clenched teeth while chewing tin foil.

Give or take a few hot pokers applied to the eyes.

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My guess is she is going to be getting a nice wad of ads aimed directly at her from her 'stand' and appearances touting the endgame.... which they failed in miserably

[kimbutgar]

2. Plaster posters of the them all over their district says they are treasonous traitors who tried to

Destroy the full faith and credit of the US. Causing the taxpayers 24 billion for their twisted ideology. Call them out as the dysfunctional legislators who should be voted out. They not working for you but for the Koch's.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

11. Well said. Thank you. n/t

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

3. Thanks. So good to see the naming of names.

They all need to be held accountable.

[Cha]

6. THank you, FA

[Fantastic Anarchist]

9. Most welcome!

[noiretextatique]

7. so many people, so little intelligence

not one functioning brain cell in their empty heads.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

8. "Most Americans realize the government shutdown has no impact on their daily life."

In the words of Governor Goodhair, "Oops."

[ReRe]

10. K&R

Yeah... and CHARGE them for it. Each one and his corporate funders has to cough up $750 million for what it cost the USA.

[NRaleighLiberal]

13. Dishonorable mention to Renee Elmers for naked greed

[TxDemChem]

19. Is that the lady who needs her paycheck?

Like the rest of us don't?

[NRaleighLiberal]

20. yeah, she's a real prize for North Carolina, that one...

quite a vomit inducing piece of word, sadly.

[TxDemChem]

33. Wow. She's definite out of touch with reality

[CBHagman]

23. Don't forget the crocodile tears over children with cancer.

Ellmers was one of that group of House GOP lawmakers who dressed in lab coats for the cameras to plead that NIH funding be restored. It's pretty rich to blame Harry Reid for the strategy the Republicans chose months before the shutdown.

[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/03/house-republicans-cancer_n_4037378.html[/url]


The politics behind the government shutdown reached a new level of absurdity on Thursday as a group of conservative House Republicans -- the same ones refusing to fund the government unless Obamacare is delayed or defunded -- pleaded with Democrats to pass a bill only funding services for children with cancer.

Dressed in lab coats, members of the Republican Doctors Caucus made the case that pediatric cancer research trials at the National Institutes of Health deserve to be funded, even if the rest of the government is not.

(SNIP)

Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.), a former nurse, choked up as she described the tears of parents learning that their children have cancer. She said it's up to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to help those families by passing the GOP bill.

"Don't take hope away from those families. Don't take hope away from those moms," Ellmers said. "Let's give hope back to those families. I'll tell you, Sen. Reid, you will not sleep until that happens."

The party of responsibility strikes again.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

25. Un-fucking-believable.

I've done things I've regretted in life, but that's just psychopathic behavior right there.

[GP6971]

14. I ran the list

32 districts in 20 states........29 males, 3 females. Anyone surprised that Texas has 6 disutricts represented? Followed by Georgia with 3. AZ,FL,LA, SC and TN have 2 each. AL,CA,IO,ID,IN,KS,KY,MI,MN,MS,NC,NJ,OH each have one.

When I have the time, I'm going to check the population of these idiot's districts to see what minute % of the population held this country hostage

[Fantastic Anarchist]

15. Yes, I was actually thinking what the numbers were.

Glad you're on it.

[GP6971]

16. It will take some

research, but I have a little time coming between now and the weekend

[Fantastic Anarchist]

17. Thanks!

[homegirl]

21. From Wikipedia

Average population per district: 710,767 people[1] (In 2000: 646,946)

There are some variations but not enormous

[calimary]

31. Good to know, though!

Thanks, homegirl!

[calimary]

30. Thank you for doing that, GP6971!

That's really great of you! I, too, am wondering about the stats here, the who's and where-from's. One from California, 'eh? SHAME on him/her! Certainly eager to find out who THAT one is! That's tedious work, but extremely informative and useful.

Just another reason why I think of DU as more of a think tank than a mere website.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

18. I like your idea.

How about a mailing list of registered voters in those districts?

[ailsagirl]

24. All those phony smiles

And the NERVE posing in front of our flag

What a bunch of loonies

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

26. And remember, "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha" said they've never been happier...

[russspeakeasy]

27. Thanks for posting this.

[certainot]

28. actually, that's bullshit from the A- although the entire 'left' is guilty of missing it. the real

problem is what got them elected and blows hot air up their asses every day- 1200 think tank-coordinated radio stations blasting 50 mil a week- unchallenged, unread, and virtually invisible to the left. those loons need to be pointed out, but they're a dime a dozen- the real problem is where they get their enabling and alternate reality from- primarily talk radio- the only medium that can do the unchallenged ubiquitous repetition needed to create that alternate reality.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

29. You do make a good point ...

... regarding unchallenged media.

[gtar100]

32. If a picture says a thousand words, three of them are most definitely

"not leadership material".

That people like them rise up in the ranks of our politics is proof positive that we have some serious dysfunction going on. And that can be summed up with three other words... too much money.

[Blue Owl]

35. Pity List 2013

Let this be a warning to all voters -- KEEP THESE NUTBAGS AWAY FROM OUR GOVERNMENT!