Bette Midler, a Grammy and Emmy winner and star of the Halloween classic Hocus Pocus as well as the more recent The Stepford Wives and Parental Guidance, had an increasingly unoriginal line of attack against the Republican party:
What a humiliating waste of time and energy this shutdown has been. The House GOP are as bad as the Taliban.
— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) October 16, 2013