Topic: Merged: Shutdown Theater

[pisskop]

More Good news, and delivered to me from our good friends @
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/10/02/2721401/rnc-exploits-shutdown/

The Republican National Committee plans to score political points by funding the World War II memorial in Washington, DC in order to keep it open during the government shutdown. The move is a reaction to WWII veterans forcing open the memorial on the first day of the shutdown.

Wednesday afternoon, Preibus announced the RNC will fund the WWII memorial for the next 30 days. He blamed the Obama administration for making the shutdown as painful as possible. A protester reportedly interrupted Preibus, saying “Go do your job, idiot!”

Good on you.

[LadyVirginia]

ok

time for others to take a stand and do something other than talk

[Pandora]

Government watchdog Judicial Watch has filed a Freedom of Information Act request to get to the bottom of the National Park Service’s actions at the World War II Memorial in Washington this week.

The NPS has barricaded the memorial and on Tuesday tried to prevent veterans from visiting the memorial, which has no amenities and is normally open to the public at all times.

The National Park service has closed facilities that are either unmanned or take no federal funding, and says that the Obama administration ordered the shutdown. Anna Eberly, managing director of the Claude Moore Colonial Farm in Virginia, told Tatler that the NPS is renting the barricades that it is using to enforce the closures, an increase in the service’s operating costs at a time that the government is partially shut down.

I'm really close to wanting somebody made ... inert.

[IronDioPriest]

Government watchdog Judicial Watch has filed a Freedom of Information Act request to get to the bottom of the National Park Service’s actions at the World War II Memorial in Washington this week.

The NPS has barricaded the memorial and on Tuesday tried to prevent veterans from visiting the memorial, which has no amenities and is normally open to the public at all times.

The National Park service has closed facilities that are either unmanned or take no federal funding, and says that the Obama administration ordered the shutdown. Anna Eberly, managing director of the Claude Moore Colonial Farm in Virginia, told Tatler that the NPS is renting the barricades that it is using to enforce the closures, an increase in the service’s operating costs at a time that the government is partially shut down.

I'm really close to wanting somebody made ... inert.

I know, me too. I'm not close, I'm there. I want someone to pay dearly for this, and for the mindset that spawned it.

The reason this is evoking such a visceral reaction is because it is so obviously inexplicable outside of pure vindictive spite. They know going after 90 year old WWII vets will outrage US, so they are going after them. Pure and simple.

[LadyVirginia]

My oldest just asked me "Isn't this a Boston Tea Party moment?"

[Weisshaupt]

The reason this is evoking such a visceral reaction is because it is so obviously inexplicable outside of pure vindictive spite. They know going after 90 year old WWII vets will outrage US, so they are going after them. Pure and simple.

Petty. Pot-Smoking. 16-year old. Punk.
Always has been. Always will be.
Dumb ass is so arrogant he thinks the optics don't matter.  They do
Today its 90 year old vets ignoring his orders.
Tomorrow its millions refusing to prove Health Insurance coverage on their tax forms ( even if they have it)  and filing millions of "amended" forms - and filling out bogus applications for health care using the fraudulent system designed to let you do just that.
Revolutions grow in power based on very public acts of defiance in which TPTB are revealed to be paper tigers, unable to control the simplest matters and the smallest areas.
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[warpmine]

Now, dammit.

WAR.

This might be the best time to start one with most of them on furlow and all.

The investigative  sections at the justice dept surely would be slowed. Be like 12-7-41.

[John Florida]

Now, dammit.

WAR.

    machinegun

[Pandora]

I pray the house doesn't yield to the pressure. And stays shutdown without apology.

More and more is getting out on how much obamacare will actually cost. Just look at THIS (and the comments) as one small example as to the potential cost.

"The silver plan also includes a 30% co-pay on most procedures! The cap on that for a family of 4 is $12,500. Therefore, Amy is set up to pay $24,464 before full coverage kicks in. In other words, she will be paying $24,464 for the equivalent of a catastrophic plan.

But it gets better. Under the CA Covered (CACA) silver plan, you will not be covered if you go to Stanford Medical Center or UCLA Medical Center."

Magnum, may we please steal your hair-pulling smilie for our collection?  Pretty puleeeeeze?

[OldSailor]

Yup.

Traitors within and within within.

 

ETA - Harry Reid blames Republicans of course for shutdown and Vet's being blocked, and that is what the MFM will parrot...but they are all wrong -

http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/01/obama-admin-knew-about-wwii-veterans-request-and-rejected-it/

More Fedcoats blocking off people from their memorials...



http://weaselzippers.us/2013/10/02/wwii-veterans-plan-to-storm-lincoln-memorial-today-closed-due-to-obama-admin-pettiness/

Thugs!

 

You beat me to it.  Good show.

My Dad was a WWII vet, USAAF stationed in the Pacific in New Guinea and later as part of the first AAF group into Clark Air Base right after the Army pushed the Japanese out.

If he had lived long enough to be able to visit the WWII Memorial I would be even more angry than I am now to learn that some self-important Chicago thug decided to try to lock him out.

I don't know how many of you have ever been to the Mall in DC, but there are no gates, no fences around any of the monuments or memorials.  They were never closed off from the public in any of the other 17 government shutdowns.  Those with doors that can be locked (Washington Monument and Smithsonian Museums for example) were locked and access denied.  But the Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam Veteran's Memorial and such as well as the rest of the Mall remained unobstructed in my experience.  You might as well try closing off the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial. 

This is complete and utter B**L S**T!  This is President Zero's administration trying to make this shutdown as painful as possible.  He should pay a price and his party should pay steep price.  The Republicans are no great shakes but IMO the only good Democrat is one no longer in office.

 

[RickZ]

OldSailor, its all in the messaging.  republicans suck at messaging.

[Libertas]

Amen, OldSailor!   

[Libertas]

Reid is such a douche...and true to form he resorts to attacking republicans without ever denying he said what he said...

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/326219-reid-clarifies-exchange-with-reporter-after-conservatives-pounce

He can try to walk this back and he'll have the lapdog media cover his sorry ass, but we all know what he means...and Obama actions to make the shutdown as painful as possible to suit their meme of blaming republicans at all costs is laid bare for all to see.

Keep talkin' Harry!

Then, the dipsh*t tries the old head-fake of a disingenuous promise to be kept later ploy if only the House plays ball with Dem demands...Boehner in a rare moment of clarity sensing weakness in Dingy and the Dem strategy wisely turns it down.

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/domestic-taxes/326137-reid-offers-to-talk-tax-reform-if-gop-funds-government

On a personal note I was asked today by a co-worker why I am so happy, when I said "because the government is mostly shut down" they chuckled.  Many are so conditioned by MFM bullsplatter right out of DemonRat caves that they mutter the typical brainless blather "I am so sick of this, they are both so stupid, always pointing fingers!"...I roll my eyes and just smile.

 

[oldcoastie6468]

Das Führer hates our military forces, and he only uses them for photo ops. He's a coward, a traitor and a liar who was behind shutting the memorial down.

 

[John Florida]

Reid is such a douche...and true to form he resorts to attacking republicans without ever denying he said what he said...

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/326219-reid-clarifies-exchange-with-reporter-after-conservatives-pounce

He can try to walk this back and he'll have the lapdog media cover his sorry ass, but we all know what he means...and Obama actions to make the shutdown as painful as possible to suit their meme of blaming republicans at all costs is laid bare for all to see.

Keep talkin' Harry!

Then, the dipsh*t tries the old head-fake of a disingenuous promise to be kept later ploy if only the House plays ball with Dem demands...Boehner in a rare moment of clarity sensing weakness in Dingy and the Dem strategy wisely turns it down.

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/domestic-taxes/326137-reid-offers-to-talk-tax-reform-if-gop-funds-government

On a personal note I was asked today by a co-worker why I am so happy, when I said "because the government is mostly shut down" they chuckled.  Many are so conditioned by MFM bullsplatter right out of DemonRat caves that they mutter the typical brainless blather "I am so sick of this, they are both so stupid, always pointing fingers!"...I roll my eyes and just smile.

 

 It's for the children!But not that one.

[oldcoastie6468]

Danny Danon / AP
     
BY: Lachlan Markay   
October 2, 2013 12:15 pm

The National Park Service has ordered the closure of a Virginia park that sits on federal land, even though the government provides no resources for its maintenance or operation.

The Claude Moore Colonial Farm announced on Wednesday that NPS has ordered it to suspend operations until Congress agrees to a deal to fund the federal government.

According to Anna Eberly, managing director of the farm, NPS sent law enforcement agents to the park on Tuesday evening to remove staff and volunteers from the property.

“You do have to wonder about the wisdom of an organization that would use staff they don’t have the money to pay to evict visitors from a park site that operates without costing them any money,” she said.

The park withstood prior government shutdowns, noting in a news release that the farm will be closed to the public for the first time in 40 years.

“In previous budget dramas, the Farm has always been exempted since the NPS provides no staff or resources to operate the Farm,” Eberly explained in an emailed statement.

http://freebeacon.com/shutdown-theater/

[LadyVirginia]

they really do think we're stupid

[oldcoastie6468]

they really do think we're stupid

For sure. But I believe the time is rapidly coming when...........

[IronDioPriest]

I really REALLY REALLY REALLY want to see MANY entities and people resist this. I want the regime to feel control slipping away.

Why not just come to work, open up for business, bring video cameras, and force the thugs on the scene to make a choice. Either way, the government loses.

[LadyVirginia]

You don't even have to force a confrontation.  Just stand outside the barricades with signs and invite the media.  Do it everyday.