Still, nothing about hot meals for the hungry.

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) via twitter today:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler ‏@RepHartzler

POTUS has closed open-air memorials to the people in an unprecedented move. #PoliticalTheater #LetsTalk 8:23 AM – 9 Oct 13

The bastard. Next, we’ll be hearing that he personally took food out of the mouths of hungry children. Oh, wait…

Some of the replies:

ReginaldConwayIII ‏@ReginaldConway

@RepHartzler You know what’s unprecedented is you actually showing up for work. But we’d really like it if you #justvote you bum. 8:24 AM – 9 Oct 13

From a supporter:

Jeanette ‏@texasfreedom101

@RepHartzler O won’t negotiate w/@GOP but will negotiate w/ Syria Iran &Russia? [….] #HarryReidsShutdown #MakeDCListen 8:24 AM – 9 Oct 13

Uh, everyone knows that you don’t ever negotiate with terrorists.

Practical:

Timwayne ‏@PTSDisSAD

@RepHartzler one need only ignore 1 sign”stay off the grass”Its a park,who will come back to pay the fine?Are there walls around our parks? 8:30 AM – 9 Oct 13

Good question.

And another:

Avocet ‏@_Avocet

@RepHartzler Congresswoman, why has the House not passed the regular 2014 appropriations bill to fund Nat’l Parks? #RepublicanWankers 8:36 AM – 9 Oct 13

Previously:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): voting to fund government one news story at a time (October 8, 2013)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): climate change comes to the teabagger caucus (October 5, 2013)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): for every season, spin, spin, spin, there is a reason, spin, spin, spin… (October 5, 2013)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): well, that didn’t go so well (October 2, 2013)

Interesting. The republican controlled House is passing piecemeal funding legislation. Aside from previously naming post offices and voting at every opportunity to defund Obamacare, they’d normally be hard pressed to find a vote button in the chamber. It must be confusing for them.

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) via Twitter today:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler ‏@RepHartzler

House voted bipartisanly to fund pediatric cancer research. @SenatorReid won’t consider the bill. Come on Senate, #LetsTalk 8:18 AM – 8 Oct 13

Some of the responses:

Jill Floyd ‏@JillFloyd13

@RepHartzler Send clean CR & it will all be over. Why won’t you? B/c your #LetsTalk is the new “negotiate? I’ve sen hot mic vid @SenatorReid 8:20 AM – 8 Oct 13

Grim_Chkn ‏@grm_chikn

.@RepHartzler YOU had 19 chances and refused, stop being shady http://www.nationaljournal.com… … @SenatorReid 8:20 AM – 8 Oct 13

Randall Rogers ‏@Randy520

@RepHartzler @SenatorReid The same can be said about the house Cruz will not let the house vote on the clean CR so now what keep lying 8:21 AM – 8 Oct 13

Dress Your Book ‏@DressYourBook

@RepHartzler @SenatorReid its all or nothing. That is important but what about me getting paid to feed my kids! Thats important also! 8:24 AM – 8 Oct 13

Avocet ‏@_Avocet

@RepHartzler Congresswoman, why has the House not passed the regular 2014 appropriations bill to fund cancer research? #RepublicanWankers 8:27 AM – 8 Oct 13

Warren Smith ‏@WarrenESmith

@RepHartzler @SenatorReid pass a clean CR and those kids will get cared for. 8:35 AM – 8 Oct 13

Peter Ver Brugge ‏@p_verbrug

@RepHartzler This is the most backwards way to look at it. If you wanted to fund cancer research, why did you shut down the government? 10:21 AM – 8 Oct 13

Rusty Colbert ‏@RustyColbert

@RepHartzler @SenatorReid Put the clean CR bill up for a vote.. But you wont because GOP wanted this and will destroy America. #VOTEOUTGOP 3:41 PM – 8 Oct 13

Previously:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): climate change comes to the teabagger caucus (October 5, 2013)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): for every season, spin, spin, spin, there is a reason, spin, spin, spin… (October 5, 2013)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): well, that didn’t go so well (October 2, 2013)

…I don’t think we’ll be seeing any open to the general public town halls in the district anytime soon…

It doesn’t look good, does it?

Previously:

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D): I get reasonable communications from those who disagree with me (October 4, 2013)

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) has been getting a few more than testy strongly worded Twitter responses.

This group, reacting to the sense of Congress resolution on military chaplains.

Hot Rod Redux ‏@Hotrodius

@RepHartzler Hey you dipshit, I WANT OBAMACARE. Stop with these idiotic maneuvers and do your goddamned job. 3:33 PM – 5 Oct 13

Noah L Heaton ‏@kariandnoah

@RepHartzler @Heritage some1 needs 2 file for an injunction against POTUS for closing WW2 Mem 4 no other reason than being sick & callous 8:54 AM – 5 Oct 13

Hot Rod Redux ‏@Hotrodius

@kariandnoah @RepHartzler @Heritage Stupid old bastard. I WORK ON A MILITARY BASE, and you poisonous old fascists are hurting our military. 3:34 PM – 5 Oct 13

That last one was probably in response to kariandnoah.

And this, in response to the vote to approve paying federal workers for the period of the furlough:

Roostaah ‏@Roostaah2

@RepHartzler thanks for the paid vacation dummy 6:48 PM – 5 Oct 13

Wouldn’t it have been more cost effective to vote for a clean continuing resolution and send federal workers back to work where they could actually work and get paid? Just asking.

Today, via Twitter:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler ‏@RepHartzler

Am voting now to ensure furloughed federal employees get paid for time lost due to the govn. slowdown. This will help 800,000 people. 7:55 AM – 5 Oct 13

Uh, do you think that maybe passing a clean continuing resolution in the first place would maybe help those 800,000 people? Evidently not.

And, a retort to the original Twitter:

Isaac Baumann ‏@Lunchboxc

.@RepHartzler Hahahaha, “slowdown?” Really? Are you kidding? 8:06 AM – 5 Oct 13

Representative Hartzler (r) doesn’t kid.

Rep. Vicky Hartzler ‏@RepHartzler

Just voted on a resolution expressing a sense of Congress regarding the need to continue chaplain services for our military during slowdown. 8:08 AM – 5 Oct 13

Still, there’s no sense of the Congress resolution about feeding hungry children. Interesting.

Previously:

Rep. Vicky Harztler (R): go tell it to the Speaker (r) (October 1, 2013)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): well, that didn’t go so well (October 2, 2013)

Because there weren’t television cameras at Head Start (October 3, 2013)

The greatest generation (October 3, 2013)

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D): I get reasonable communications from those who disagree with me (October 4, 2013)

Senator Claire McCaskill (D) shared a constituent’s criticsm today, via Twitter:

Claire McCaskill ‏@clairecmc

Some of today’s hate:”shut the f* up you baby killing,veteran disrespecting,butt ugly sack of shit bitch”His profile says he’s a Christian. 3:48 PM – 4 Oct 13

I wonder who they voted for in 2006 and 2012. It’s kind of hard to tell.

Previously:

Because there weren’t television cameras at Head Start (October 3, 2013)

From a phone conversation (paraphrased) this evening with my eighty-eight year old dad, who served from 1943 to 1965:

Me: What do you think of the budget shutdown.

Dad: It’s stupid.

Me: What upsets you most, that veterans had to move barriers to see the World War Two Memorial or that children in Head Start aren’t getting meals?

Dad: [without hesitation] The children. They have to eat.

That’s one reason why they’re called the greatest generation. And by the way, dad doesn’t particularly like the label or being singled out for attention.

Yesterday, in Washington:

Photos of the Great World War II Memorial Rebellion of 2013

By David Weigel

Three buses of World War II veterans (and some volunteers) arrived at the World War II Memorial at 11 a.m. Almost all were from Missouri or Illinois, according to Honor Flight, which charters and runs these journeys for aging veterans. Before we descend into the mucky-muck of politics, let’s remember that it should be about these guys….

….Now, on to the great Optics wars. The Mall in Washington is currently sort-of-kind-of blocked off to tourists. At various points, flimsy barricades prevent them from entering memorials….

….At 11 a.m., when the Honor Flight-ers arrived, members of Congress gathered in front of the entrance closest to the tour buses and made a show of rolling back the barricade….

….This was half-welcome, half-irritating. Sen. Claire McCaskill talked openly about how annoying it was for members of Congress whose states weren’t even represented in the delegation to take up space at the entrance….

Not noticed, so much:

The nine most painful impacts of a government shutdown

By Brad Plumer, Published: October 3 at 6:12 am

….There are some 1,600 Head Start programs around the country providing education, health, nutrition and other services to roughly 1 million low-income children and their families. Those will slowly begin closing during a shutdown.

Initially, only about 20 programs would be affected – the programs whose federal grants expire on Oct. 1 and don’t get renewed. Over time, more programs would likely be affected. The effects really vary from community to community….

Our national and local media, working to educate the masses in all of the complexities and nuances of our times.

Interesting. Very interesting. Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) engaged in a very rare (if not, previously nonexistent) bit of 140 character debate via Twitter with at least one constituent today:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler ‏@RepHartzler

Working hard to ensure our men & women in uniform are not harmed w/ the Pres.’s shutdown. They ALL are essential. 12:15 PM – 2 Oct 13

John Wells ‏@JDubMo

@RepHartzler House republicans have created this mess. Shame on you. 12:19 PM – 2 Oct 13

Scotty C. ‏@0piate47

@RepHartzler ha ha the president’s shutdown? How about some truth. GOP shutdown. How’s your “welfare check” for your farm.Was it big enough 12:50 PM – 2 Oct 13

Ron Evans ‏@Crewylou

@RepHartzler Wow, way to own it — not. #GOPFail 1:12 PM – 2 Oct 13

Rita Wheeler ‏@rwmw7172

@RepHartzler Not the Pres shutdown. How about we bring that clean bill up for a vote? Your constituents in MO have had #enoughalready. 1:47 PM – 2 Oct 13

Bob Yates ‏@OldDrum

@RepHartzler Shame on you. Your votes created this mess. Allow your leadership to allow a clean CR and see what happens. 2:24 PM – 2 Oct 13

Bob Yates ‏@OldDrum

@RepHartzler How about the 10’s of 1000’s of families of government workers who are not getting their salaries? Why aren’t the essential?  2:27 PM – 2 Oct 13

Rep. Vicky Hartzler ‏@RepHartzler

.@OldDrum POTUS deemed them non-essential. House passed 5 bills to keep gov’t open. Senate won’t even come to the table. 2:28 PM – 2 Oct 13

Franklin Castillo ‏@sm_news

@RepHartzler @OldDrum shutting down the gvmt and keeping 800,000 from working just because you don’t like #ACA isn’t leadership, Ma’am. 2:33 PM – 2 Oct 13

Bob Yates ‏@OldDrum

@RepHartzler GOP controlled House passed 5 bills to repeal laws passed byCongress and signed by the President to keep government open. 2:37 PM – 2 Oct 13

Rep. Vicky Hartzler ‏@RepHartzler

@OldDrum So Congress should never repeal laws? Just because something is law doesn’t make it good policy. 2:48 PM – 2 Oct 13

Albie Y. Pabon ‏@PabonMatriarch

@RepHartzler @OldDrum Rewriting History Already: 18 times Senate asked for negotiators for debt deal. Denied 18 times by House. Facts. 3:07 PM – 2 Oct 13

I don’t think we’ll be seeing any open to the general public town halls in the district anytime soon.

And the incomparable Charles P. Pierce has a thing or two to say about Representative Hartzler (r) [first on the list!]:

Oct 2, 2013

Meet the Morons Who Caused the Shutdown

By Charles P. Pierce at 12:24PM

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….

It’s not turning out to be such a good day for the right wingnut teabagger caucus, is it? Just asking.

We are not worthy:

Oct 1, 2013

The Reign Of Morons Is Here

By Charles P. Pierce at 9:10AM

….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. That is why the government of the United States is, in large measure, closed this morning….

….We did this. We looked at our great legacy of self-government and we handed ourselves over to the reign of morons….

….Among other things, the Library Of Congress is closed as a result of what the vandals have done. Padlock study and intellect. Wander aimlessly down the mall among the shuttered monuments to self-government. Find yourself a food truck that serves monkey brains. Eat your fking fill.

Go. Read the whole thing.

Yesterday, via Twitter:

Asteroid Watch ‏@AsteroidWatch

In the event of government shutdown, we will not be posting or responding from this account. We sincerely hope to resume tweets soon. 10:12 PM – 30 Sep 13

You think they stopped watching? Just asking.