Toontime: Ham He Is

Tea party extremist Senator Ted Cruz only managed to talk his way into fourth place in the Senate's history of filibuster while paraphrasing Dr. Suess. Former South Carolina Senator Strom 'Sperm' Thurman still holds the record at over 24 hours when he tried to stop the 1957 Civil Rights bill. Cruz's effort was not formally a filibuster under the Senate's rules, but the American public will never know the difference. And besides, Washington obstructionism has reached new levels of dysfunction as the failure to pass a spending bill known as a "continuing resolution" in Hill parlance has started the government shut down clock ticking again. The last shut down cost US about $1.4 billion in extra operating expenses. It's no way to run a railroad, folks.

[credit: Tom Toles, Washington Post]

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