Home / Blogs / Just Now Ago  Win McNamee/Getty Images  Rep. Tim
Griffin grandstanding a few days ago.  The early days of the
shutdown have been one long game to figure out who is the worst
person in the United States government. It's been a tough call.
Up until today, Ted Cruz would probably have been the strongest
competitor. He's certainly easy to hate, with his Canadian-born
wouldn't-work-with-people-who-didn't-go-to-Harvard-or-Yale
grandstanding pointless campaign to put 800,000 people out of
work so that his own odds at a Presidential run would be
slightly higher. It's hard to imagine a more unappealing person
at the moment or in general. But the thing about the current
American Congress is that its capacity to inspire contempt is
boundless, seemingly without limit. Look at Tim Griffin,
Republican for Arkansas.  Here's what Tim Griffin did. While a
crazed shooter was rampaging through Capitol Hill, he decided to
tweet the following:  Remember that old adage, that party
politics stops at the water's edge?