Anyone else (possibly) getting a mandatory vacation come Tuesday?

[Donegeal]

Damn. Still have to go to work tonight.

[giblets]

Since the major regulatory bodies are shut down, one would expect private business to begin a historic hiring boom... since all those regulations are just holding down job creation.

This is trolling, right?

[kentonio]

Ok, we're up to 12 Republicans who have actually come out and said enough is enough. Peter King reckons there's at least a hundred.

Rep. Pat Meehan (R-Pa.)
Rep. Scott Rigell (R-Va.)
Rep. Jon Runyan (R-N.J.)
Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.)
Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.)
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.)
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)
Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.)
Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.)
Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.)
Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.)
Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.)

[Guynemer]

Ok, we're up to 12 Republicans who have actually come out and said enough is enough. Peter King reckons there's at least a hundred.

Rep. Pat Meehan (R-Pa.)
Rep. Scott Rigell (R-Va.)
Rep. Jon Runyan (R-N.J.)
Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.)
Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.)
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.)
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)
Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.)
Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.)
Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.)
Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.)
Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.)

Not surprisingly, every one of them from a state won by Obama in 2008 and 2012.

[kentonio]

Tell me how the government shutdown has affected your day. I'll start.

•

Shame not everyone can say the same..

Shutdown Blocks Kids With Cancer From Clinical Trials

For every week that the government shutdown continues, 10 children with cancer will not be able to begin their clinical trials, officials told ABCNews.com.

John Burklow, a spokesman for the National Institutes of Health, estimated that 200 patients would experience these delays each week of the shutdown. Since 15 percent of these patients are typically children, and 33 percent of these children have cancer, that means the patients facing delays would include about 30 children per week, 10 of whom have cancer, he said.

Federal health programs are down thousands of employees, which hampers clinical trials and disease outbreak surveillance.

The NIH, for example, has had to furlough 14,700 employees – or 75 percent of its staff – as a result of the shutdown, Burklow told ABCNews.com. He expressed surprise that calls were even getting through, because he said his phone system had gone down this morning.

“Unfortunately, almost everybody is gone,” he said of his office. His staff in the media office has shrunk from 38 to one.

More than 1,400 ongoing clinical trials will continue at the NIH Clinical Center, which is the largest research hospital in the world, but it won’t be able to enroll any new patients in these trials or start any new trials during the shutdown, Burklow said.

“There are four new protocols [clinical trials] ready to start next week, and they won’t be starting during the shutdown if we’re still shut down,” he said.

As a result of the shutdown, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has furloughed 9,000 employees, rendering it unable to track multi-state disease outbreaks, said CDC spokeswoman Barbara Reynolds. These currently include the disease stemming from the brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri, which killed a 4-year-old in Louisiana a few weeks ago, and the stomach bug cyclospora, which has sickened 643 people in 25 states since June.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2...inical-trials/

[regexcellent]

New York Times has a good article on what's happened.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/30/us/politics/the-back-and-forth-over-the-shutdown.html?_r=2

Hmm yes the GOP, which offered 3 different compromises, is the one that's being intransigent.

[Hauldren Collider]

That doesn't mean they are in democratic-friendly districts. Frank Wolf wins by huge margins every year iirc for instance.

[DinoDoc]

New York Times has a good article on what's happened.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/30/us/politics/the-back-and-forth-over-the-shutdown.html?_r=2

Hmm yes the GOP, which offered 3 different compromises, is the one that's being intransigent.

Being strategically inept is the bigger sin here. What's the bigger news story today? The government shutdown and how evil Republicans are or the ****-ups that typified Day 1 of Obamacare?

[pchang]

Day 1 of ACA resulted in web site failures because they were too busy. Clearly the majority of people in the US do not want it.

[regexcellent]

Or they just have almost no bandwidth, and when people heard they were down they checked it out like spectators drawn to a grisly car accident (a good metaphor for obamacare).

[Dinner]

Straight party line vote (Which to me is a bad indicator for legislation this sweeping). So 58-41 in the Senate. I guess you could call that a wide margin, but given the straight party line tallies, it should have expected huge consequences:

Alaska
Yea D Begich, Mark AK
Nay R Murkowski, Lisa AK
Alabama
Nay R Sessions, Jeff AL
Nay R Shelby, Richard AL
Arkansas
Yea D Lincoln, Blanche AR
Yea D Pryor, Mark AR
Arizona
Nay R Kyl, Jon AZ
Nay R McCain, John AZ
California
Yea D Boxer, Barbara CA
Yea D Feinstein, Dianne CA
Colorado
Yea D Bennet, Michael CO
Yea D Udall, Mark CO
Connecticut
Yea D Dodd, Christopher CT
Yea I Lieberman, Joseph CT
Delaware
Yea D Carper, Thomas DE
Yea D Kaufman, Edward DE
Florida
Nay R LeMieux, George FL
Yea D Nelson, Bill FL
Georgia
Nay R Chambliss, Saxby GA
Nay R Isakson, John GA
Hawaii
Yea D Akaka, Daniel HI
Yea D Inouye, Daniel HI
Iowa
Nay R Grassley, Chuck IA
Yea D Harkin, Tom IA
Idaho
Nay R Crapo, Michael ID
Nay R Risch, James ID
Illinois
Yea D Burris, Roland IL
Yea D Durbin, Richard IL
Indiana
Yea D Bayh, Evan IN
Nay R Lugar, Richard IN
Kansas
Nay R Brownback, Sam KS
Nay R Roberts, Pat KS
Kentucky
No Vote R Bunning, Jim KY
Nay R McConnell, Mitch KY
Louisiana
Yea D Landrieu, Mary LA
Nay R Vitter, David LA
Massachusetts
Yea D Kerry, John MA
Yea D Kirk, Paul MA
Maryland
Yea D Cardin, Benjamin MD
Yea D Mikulski, Barbara MD
Maine
Nay R Collins, Susan ME
Nay R Snowe, Olympia ME
Michigan
Yea D Levin, Carl MI
Yea D Stabenow, Debbie MI
Minnesota
Yea D Franken, Al MN
Yea D Klobuchar, Amy MN
Missouri
Nay R Bond, Kit MO
Yea D McCaskill, Claire MO
Mississippi
Nay R Cochran, Thad MS
Nay R Wicker, Roger MS
Montana
Yea D Baucus, Max MT
Yea D Tester, Jon MT
North Carolina
Nay R Burr, Richard NC
Yea D Hagan, Kay NC
North Dakota
Yea D Conrad, Kent ND
Yea D Dorgan, Byron ND
Nebraska
Nay R Johanns, Mike NE
Yea D Nelson, Ben NE
New Hampshire
Nay R Gregg, Judd NH
Yea D Shaheen, Jeanne NH
New Jersey
Yea D Lautenberg, Frank NJ
Yea D Menéndez, Bob NJ
New Mexico
Yea D Bingaman, Jeff NM
Yea D Udall, Tom NM
Nevada
Nay R Ensign, John NV
Yea D Reid, Harry NV
New York
Yea D Gillibrand, Kirsten NY
Yea D Schumer, Charles NY
Ohio
Yea D Brown, Sherrod OH
Nay R Voinovich, George OH
Oklahoma
Nay R Coburn, Thomas OK
Nay R Inhofe, Jim OK
Oregon
Yea D Merkley, Jeff OR
Yea D Wyden, Ron OR
Pennsylvania
Yea D Casey, Bob PA
Yea D Specter, Arlen PA
Rhode Island
Yea D Reed, John RI
Yea D Whitehouse, Sheldon RI
South Carolina
Nay R DeMint, Jim SC
Nay R Graham, Lindsey SC
South Dakota
Yea D Johnson, Tim SD
Nay R Thune, John SD
Tennessee
Nay R Alexander, Lamar TN
Nay R Corker, Bob TN
Texas
Nay R Cornyn, John TX
Nay R Hutchison, Kay TX
Utah
Nay R Bennett, Robert UT
Nay R Hatch, Orrin UT
Virginia
Yea D Warner, Mark VA
Yea D Webb, Jim VA
Vermont
Yea D Leahy, Patrick VT
Yea I Sanders, Bernie VT
Washington
Yea D Cantwell, Maria WA
Yea D Murray, Patty WA
Wisconsin
Yea D Feingold, Russell WI
Yea D Kohl, Herb WI
West Virginia
Yea D Byrd, Robert WV
Yea D Rockefeller, Jay WV
Wyoming
Nay R Barrasso, John WY
Nay R Enzi, Michael WY

So what? The point is the legislation ****ing passed legally with 60 votes when only 50 (+1 for the VP) was needed.

[Dinner]

Sounds about right. With 72% already polling against the Republicans, I can only imagine that it will get worse and the opposition Congressmen will start to get heat from their voters.

That's true. I'd also like to say that ACA has so far been better than the best prediction which really does make Republicans look like complete fools for their dire doom and gloom proclamations. Of course, they always look like fools so they must be used to it and that's why they have no shame with being constantly wrong. About EVERYTHING.

[MrFun]

Not to mention that The Great Smoky Mountain National Park is closed which is having an economic impact on Eastern Tennessee this very minute.

You can thank the Tea Bagger-type Republicans in the House for this.

[Sava]

This is trolling, right?

[DinoDoc]

Day 1 of ACA resulted in web site failures because they were too busy. Clearly the majority of people in the US do not want it.

This news is the casualty of the GOP's quixotic desire to throw a lifeline to an Administration that had been on the defensive before this shutdown happened: First Obamacare security breach leaks 2,400 Americans’ info