Tea Party Republicans

It's Day #2 of the Tea Party's shutdown of the federal government.   Shuttered entrances to national parks and museums are immediate and visible signs of this idiocy.  The shutdown's effect on key federal public health programs are probably less obvious, but could have substantially more adverse impact on the U.S. population.  Superbug's Maryn McKenna wrote yesterday on just a few ways that interruptions at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and USDA, could affect your's (and the world's) health.  With just a few examples, McKenna captures the…