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Tommy Elrod
I'm not talking about allowing people to go hike on trails or go up the Washington Monument or some shit. I'm talking about blocking off views of Mt. Rushmore and shit like shutting down the Claude Moore Colonial Farm, which receives no federal funding to operate. There is no reason to do that. None. We know there is no liability involved for the feds. And "security" is a bunch of bullshit. They can send out a gaggle of NPS rangers to close the shit down or set up barricades, but then they're going to babble about things like security. At the very least, it gives off the appearance of being disingenuous. I think I remember a park ranger at the Lincoln Memorial once, most likely there to make sure some clown didn't jump up on the statue, which was roped off. I don't remember any on the Mall.
This is a perfect example of what the government can do versus what they should do. It's also a perfect example of how much government intrudes into innocuous crap. You can blame the GOP for the shutdown all you want, but Obama is still the executive and it's high time he acted like one. He's content to sit on his hands and make speeches about how the GOP sucks donkey dick, and then something like the veteran's benefits hits him in the ass because he didn't even bother to take the time to prioritize things in the executive branch before the shutdown, even though everybody and their dead grandmothers knew the shutdown was coming.
This is a perfect example of what the government can do versus what they should do. It's also a perfect example of how much government intrudes into innocuous crap. You can blame the GOP for the shutdown all you want, but Obama is still the executive and it's high time he acted like one. He's content to sit on his hands and make speeches about how the GOP sucks donkey dick, and then something like the veteran's benefits hits him in the ass because he didn't even bother to take the time to prioritize things in the executive branch before the shutdown, even though everybody and their dead grandmothers knew the shutdown was coming.