jonny5
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Because the gov is shut down..
Nope, I don't see that at all. The true Tea Party types are only interested in the financial health of the country. They want reduced debt, reduced deficits, and reduced taxes. The social issues aren't really issues of government to them. They're like Canadian conservatives in that regard.
That's deemed "essential", apparently. :shrug:If its shut down, how are they paying people to block off parks?
That's deemed "essential", apparently. ..
It is essential security.
Did you maintain a straight face when you typed that?It is essential security.
Did you maintain a straight face when you typed that?
Anyway, ok, let's run with that. We'll even keep this to a single example to avoid confusion. Let's use the example somebody else posted earlier in this thread where they coned off scenic highway pull-outs so that people could not take photos of Mt Rushmore. Areas that are otherwise unblocked and unmanned 24/7.
Please articulate how that act was "essential".
I bet if they had a tarp big enough they'd have covered the mountain as well so nobody could even see it.Perhaps he will also investigate this 'idiocity'...
The National Park Service placed cones along highway viewing areas outside Mount Rushmore this week, barring visitors from pulling over and taking pictures of the famed monument.
http://www.argusleader.com/article/...e-stirs-anger-in-S-D-?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1
Really? Cones along a public highway to prevent viewing of a National Monument...And I'm sure they used a contractor to place the cones (not even gov't employees)...
I bet if they had a tarp big enough they'd have covered the mountain as well so nobody could even see it.
And you believe that? You're either a sucker or your being willfully disingenuous and partisan and argumentative.The park service said they placed the cones there to channel traffic not to block off the pull- outs.
Anyway the cones have been removed.
I haven't seen that, but it would be funny.too funny!
In fact there is photo shopped photo of two helicopters in front of Mt. Rushmore holding a movie screen which is blocking the monument.
If the govt and its monuments are closed why were illegal aliens / criminals who should be arrested by LE allowed to march on the Capital Mall, build a stage / podium and have an "event?" How can they close off a cement structure and not the capital mall?
Too funny! You don't the districts these Tea Partiers represent.
They are only worried about being reelected.
Most are from republican gerrymandered districts and if they don't fight healthcare a different republican will be elected to represent their district.
“It’s a cheap way to deal with the situation,” an angry Park Service ranger in Washington says of the harassment. “We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting.”
Read more: PRUDEN: The cheap tricks of the game - Washington Times
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I'm sorry - what part of representative government don't you understand or respect? If the people in a politician's district, otherwise known as the constituents he/she represents, expect their representative to keep their promises and do as they say when they got elected, how is that funny? .
As I understand it, that's a "1st Amendment event" and cannot legally be denied over something like a government shutdown.
Isn't that what pretty much all politician do, regardless of party affiliation?My "too funny" comment was to what you posted about the Tea Party representatives are interested in the financial health of our country ...not the fact that they are trying to defund the ACA.
Edited to add ...
now you finally admit that they just trying to keep promises made so they can be reelected.
I didn't say it was right or wrong, good or bad, I just explained the difference.So the people that want to see the prudent memorials built in the area should just demand to speak in front of them - problem solved?
Actually while I totally agree with you that this is both parties fault I do have to say that Republicans actually are compromising more than the Democrats on this. Republicans first demanded that Obamacare get totally defunded. When Democrats said no to that the Republicans reduced their demand to allowing regular civilians the same exentions that both Big Business and Congress got. Where as Democrats have said no to everything regarding this situation.
My "too funny" comment was to what you posted about the Tea Party representatives are interested in the financial health of our country ...not the fact that they are trying to defund the ACA.
Edited to add ...
now you finally admit that they just trying to keep promises made so they can be reelected.
Speaking of "high ground" and the Administration's lack of it here, it's funny that rallies they're sympathetic to can still happen on the "closed" National Mall:
Park Service OKs immigration reform rally on 'closed' National Mall | WashingtonExaminer.com
And the President's favorite golf course is still open on an air force base, while grocery stores at army bases have been closed due to the shutdown:
Troops Forage for Food While Golfers Play On in Shutdown - Bloomberg
Park Service OKs immigration reform rally on 'closed' National Mall | WashingtonExaminer.com
Susana Flores, a spokesperson for the rally, confirmed for the Washington Examiner that the Park Service will allow the event to take place under the group's rights granted by the First Amendment.
Troops Forage for Food While Golfers Play On in Shutdown - Bloomberg
The seeming randomness of the U.S. government’s first shutdown in 17 years can be explained in part by anomalies in the spending Congress does and doesn’t control. Activities funded by fees from drug, financial-services and other companies are insulated from year-to-year budget dysfunction. The ones that get a budget from Congress get hit.
The Andrews Air Force Base golf course is funded through user fees and that’s why it remains open, said Air Force Captain Lindy Singleton, chief of public affairs for the 11th Wing at Andrews.
You really should read your cited/linked articles before using them as support for your viewpoint
The whole framework of "Obamacare" was proposed by Republicans as an alternative to the Clinton's healthcare plans in 1992-3
Who would be against investigating this?
Firstly, defunding all or part of the ACA is showing an interest in the financial health of your country. Since Obama and Democrats promised that the ACA wouldn't cost the federal government any money and when fully implemented in 10 years would save the country hundreds of billions, just what funding is needed? Shouldn't it be self-funded if Obama and Democrats actually kept their election promises?
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