Senator Ted Cruz may be the pied piper of the government shutdown, but it's the House Republicans following behind him like some sort of maniacal conga line who have actually thrown the wrenches in the gears. And none of them is congaing quite as maniacally as Tyler Congressman Louie Gohmert.

Gohmert has long been a favorite of the crazy wing of the Republican party, so much so that they attempted to draft him to challenge John Cornyn for his Senate seat, but his leading role in the defund-Obamacare fight has turned his torrid love affair with the Tea Party into a hardcore porn flick.

And so in recent days you have Gohmert leading a pack of veterans through the barricades of the shut-down World War II Memorial, calling John McCain an Al Qaeda supporter, and comparing Obama to Al Capone.