• Welcome to OGBoards 10.0, keep in mind that we will be making LOTS of changes to smooth out the experience here and make it as close as possible functionally to the old software, but feel free to drop suggestions or requests in the Tech Support subforum!

Republicans Shut Down the Federal Government Again & Suffer Humiliating Defeat

Federal employee morale is high!

 
Federal employee morale is high!


I believe someone posted a comment from some Trumpite on social media about how they don't feel sorry for federal employees because they're not earning those cushy "six-digit" salaries right now and living the good (urban) life, and now they're suffering along with all of those good "Real American" working-class folk who have to work at Wal-Mart or McDonald's or wherever in their dinky little towns for low pay because that's all that's left. As long as the snooty LibDem elites are visibly suffering and hurting, Trumpites will be happy and won't care about the shutdown, at least until (or unless) it starts to hurt them directly. Resentment and jealously at its finest.
 
So the difference here is between 2.5 billion and 5.6 billion for the wall?
 
From Axios:

Shutdown, Day 11 ... Human waste, overflowing garbage, illegal off-roading and other bad behavior in fragile areas is beginning to overwhelm some of the West's iconic national parks, AP's Ellen Knickmeyer and Jocelyn Gecker report:

The partial government shutdown has left the areas open to visitors but with little staff on duty.
"It's a free-for-all," Dakota Snider, 24, who lives and works in Yosemite Valley, said, as Yosemite National Park officials announced closings of some minimally supervised campgrounds and public areas.
Why it matters: Unlike shutdowns in some previous administrations, the Trump administration was leaving parks open to visitors.

"It's really a nightmare scenario," said John Garder, senior budget director of the nonprofit National Parks Conservation Association. "We’re afraid that we’re going to start seeing significant damage to the natural resources in parks and potentially to historic and other cultural artifacts."

Spotted:
"In Sequoia, home to [California's] ancient giant sequoias, General Highway was closed because overflowing trash bins were spreading litter and posed a threat to wildlife."
"[T]he icy, jammed roadway was seeing up to three-hour delays."
"Campers at Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California's deserts were reporting squabbles as different families laid claims to sites, with no rangers on hand to adjudicate."
"Some visitors have strung Christmas lights in the twisting Joshua trees, many of which are hundreds of years old."
"At Yosemite, ... crowds of visitors were driving into the park to take advantage of free admission."
"Visitors were allowing their dogs to run off-leash in an area rich with bears and other wildlife, and scattering bags of garbage along the roads."
"In Yellowstone National Park, private companies have picked up some of the maintenance normally done by federal workers."

"The contractors that operate park tours by snowmobile, buses and vans are grooming trails, hauling trash and replacing toilet paper at pit toilets and restrooms along their routes."

More here

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-park-restrictions-20190102-story.html

Odd that the dress was identified as a "prom dress" in December/January/.
 
From Axios:

Shutdown, Day 11 ... Human waste, overflowing garbage, illegal off-roading and other bad behavior in fragile areas is beginning to overwhelm some of the West's iconic national parks, AP's Ellen Knickmeyer and Jocelyn Gecker report:

The partial government shutdown has left the areas open to visitors but with little staff on duty.
"It's a free-for-all," Dakota Snider, 24, who lives and works in Yosemite Valley, said, as Yosemite National Park officials announced closings of some minimally supervised campgrounds and public areas.
Why it matters: Unlike shutdowns in some previous administrations, the Trump administration was leaving parks open to visitors.

"It's really a nightmare scenario," said John Garder, senior budget director of the nonprofit National Parks Conservation Association. "We’re afraid that we’re going to start seeing significant damage to the natural resources in parks and potentially to historic and other cultural artifacts."

Spotted:
"In Sequoia, home to [California's] ancient giant sequoias, General Highway was closed because overflowing trash bins were spreading litter and posed a threat to wildlife."
"The icy, jammed roadway was seeing up to three-hour delays."
"Campers at Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California's deserts were reporting squabbles as different families laid claims to sites, with no rangers on hand to adjudicate."
"Some visitors have strung Christmas lights in the twisting Joshua trees, many of which are hundreds of years old."
"At Yosemite, ... crowds of visitors were driving into the park to take advantage of free admission."
"Visitors were allowing their dogs to run off-leash in an area rich with bears and other wildlife, and scattering bags of garbage along the roads."
"In Yellowstone National Park, private companies have picked up some of the maintenance normally done by federal workers."

"The contractors that operate park tours by snowmobile, buses and vans are grooming trails, hauling trash and replacing toilet paper at pit toilets and restrooms along their routes."

Fights over campsites can turn ugly very quickly.
 
House Democrats prepare vote to reopen government, as cracks appear in GOP opposition

The House prepared to pass legislation Thursday that would reopen the federal government, but the partial shutdown is set to continue after President Trump vowed to veto the measure over its lack of funding for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Two Senate Republicans broke with Trump and party leaders Thursday, saying it was time to end the shutdown even if Democrats would not sign off on the more than $5 billion in border funding Trump is demanding.

The comments from Sens. Cory Gardner (Colo.) and Susan Collins (Maine) — the only two Senate Republicans who are up for re-election in 2020 in states Trump lost — pointed to cracks in the GOP strategy, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said the Senate will only consider a plan that Trump supports.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...898adc28fa2_story.html?utm_term=.bb675359ee5f
 
 
There is a new issue regarding the shutdown - Women's bathrooms for Members of Congress. With all the new women in the House, there aren't enough toilets and sinks. Forget about the wall, this is becoming the #1 issue.
 
There is a new issue regarding the shutdown - Women's bathrooms for Members of Congress. With all the new women in the House, there aren't enough toilets and sinks. Forget about the wall, this is becoming the #1 issue.

So the gals want their own bathrooms? How small minded of them. I guess they now support exclusionary bathroom facilities.
 
So the gals want their own bathrooms? How small minded of them. I guess they now support exclusionary bathroom facilities.

This is a bit presumptuous. How do you know it's not the Republican men worried about women coming into the men's rooms and getting glimpses of their small penises?
 
Just heard Sarah Huckabee Sanders claim that CBP arrested over 4,000 suspected or known terrorists crossing the southern border last year.

I get that they are lying their asses off at this point out of desperation, but that one... Yeesh.
 
Just heard Sarah Huckabee Sanders claim that CBP arrested over 4,000 suspected or known terrorists crossing the southern border last year.

I get that they are lying their asses off at this point out of desperation, but that one... Yeesh.

And when they are caught in the lies, they shrug and call them "editorial errors" even when they are used to justify their horrific immigration policies.

One flaw the Justice Department acknowledged was the report’s assertion that between 2003 and 2009, immigrants were convicted of 69,929 sex offenses, which “in most instances constitutes gender-based violence against women.”

But, Allen said in his letter, “the alleged misrepresented data constitute mere editorial errors which the [law] does not obligate the agencies to withdraw or correct.”

Still, he added, “the department appreciates being made aware of such errors so they will not be repeated.”

Berwick said the errors were “not merely editorial.” The nearly 70,000 offenses spanned a period from 1955 to 2010 — 55 years, not six; the data covered arrests, not convictions;

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.78b76f8e3b9e
 
Just heard Sarah Huckabee Sanders claim that CBP arrested over 4,000 suspected or known terrorists crossing the southern border last year.

I get that they are lying their asses off at this point out of desperation, but that one... Yeesh.

Sadly, but not surprisingly, the administration (not just POTUS) seems to lie on the topic of immigration. . . a lot:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...29997a-0f69-11e9-831f-3aa2c2be4cbd_story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...g-heavily-inflated-numbers-argue-border-wall/

https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2018-10/OIG-18-84-Sep18.pdf

https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2018-10/OIG-18-87-Sep18.pdf


All I can say is be thankful for Inspectors General.
 
Back
Top