Againsheila
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Ranger: "Weve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. Its disgusting.
The Cheap Tricks of the Game
Read more: PRUDEN: The cheap tricks of the game - Washington TimesThe games politicians play: Barack Obama is having a lot of fun using the government shutdown to squeeze the public in imaginative ways. The point of the shutdown game is to see who can squeeze hardest, make the most pious speech and listen for the applause. Its a variation on the grade-school ritual of you show me yours, and Ill show you mine.
The Park Service appears to be closing streets on mere whim and caprice. The rangers even closed the parking lot at Mount Vernon, where the plantation home of George Washington is a favorite tourist destination. That was after they barred the new World War II Memorial on the Mall to veterans of World War II. But the government does not own Mount Vernon; it is privately owned by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. The ladies bought it years ago to preserve it as a national memorial. The feds closed access to the parking lots this week, even though the lots are jointly owned with the Mount Vernon ladies. The rangers are from the government, and theyre only here to help.
Its a cheap way to deal with the situation, an angry Park Service ranger in Washington says of the harassment. Weve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. Its disgusting.
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That's Obama for you...Don't let a crisis go to waste.
We should close down the Whitehouse, after all, it is publicly owned and funded, unlike the WWII memorial. Let Obama do without his aids, his chef, his maids, etc. The shutdown would have ended before it began. It's costing more to shut these thing down than it would to ignore them. This is not the first time the government has shutdown, it's just the first time the president threw a hissy fit and closed down all the public parks and blocked access to privately owned memorials and museums.