A blown-out tire caused a church bus to hit a tractor-trailer and an SUV Wednesday, and:
The National Transportation Safety Board is not sending anyone to investigate a horrific Tennessee bus crash that left eight people dead and 14 more injured because the government shutdown furloughed all its highway investigators, an NTSB official said.
“In this particular case I think it’s highly likely that we would have responded to it, but again, with our investigators furloughed, it’s impossible to do that,” Sharon Bryson, deputy director of communications for the NTSB, told NBC News.
Our government, ladies and gentlemen. Broken. By Republicans. Who will, depending how much bad press this gets, either ignore it because they don't really care, or be outraged that the Obama administration is engaging in political stunts like actually shutting down the government when Congress ceases to fund it. Probably the former—after all, this isn't a war memorial.