“The whole room: ‘Let’s vote!’” Congressman John Culberson of Texas recalled. “I said, like 9/11, ‘let’s roll!’”

With House Republicans all but declaring that they will shut down the government—a move opposed by 80% of all Americans—they've now taken to comparing their move to the heroes of 9/11. Seriously.Yes, the 40 dead, who kept a hijacked airliner from crashing into God knows what in our nation's capital, is just like House Republicans appeasing the extremists of their party.