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Did Obama say "make life as difficult for people as we can" or is that just you lying again?
the Republicans for the shutdown and this piece of we call a President.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...s-of-the-game/
The 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. It’s a variation on the grade-school ritual of “you show me yours, and I’ll show you mine.”
President Obama is not a bad poker player, but the man with all the chips always starts with the advantage (and he gets all the aces). He has closed Washington down as tight as he dares, emphasizing the trivial and the petty in making life as inconvenient as he can for the greatest number. It’s all in a noble cause, of course. Access to most of the memorials is limited, and often in curious ways. The Lincoln Memorial is easy to reach, with the streets around it remaining open. But the Martin Luther King Memorial is made difficult to reach, relegating it, you might say, to the back of the bus. Not very nice.
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 they’re only here to help.
“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.”
The Republicans, fighting with smaller-bore weaponry, keep trying to get some things reopened with carefully targeted legislation. The Senate, under the thumbs of Sen. Harry Reid and the White House, refuses to budge from the trivial and the petty. It says here that Harry Reid’s critics, and they are legion, should give the guy a break. No man in Washington is under the pressure he is, and it doesn’t seem quite cricket to do that to an old man, even one who deserves it.
Harry is at the breaking point, weary from exhausting his thesaurus for synonyms for “arsonist” and “terrorist” and “pillager.” Everyone could see the cracks in his exchange with Dana Bash, a reporter for CNN, who asked why, if he is concerned about children with cancer who are unable to enter clinical trials for new drugs because Mr. Obama shut down the National Ins utes of Health, why stifle Republican attempts to grant a little relief?
“If you can help one child who has cancer, why wouldn’t you do it?” the reporter asked.
“Why would we want to do that?” Mr. Reid snapped back. “I have 1,100 people at Nellis Air Force Base that are sitting home. They have a few problems of their own. This is — to have someone of your intelligence to suggest such a thing maybe means you’re irresponsible and reckless.”
Over the next two days, Mr. Reid tried to take back, change, adjust and recalibrate his remarks. It’s all John Boehner’s fault. The senator cares not just about the National Ins utes of Health, but the Centers for Disease Control, too. The senator likes babies. In fact, he’s quite a stud. And he thinks Dana Bash is “a fine reporter.”
“Listen, I gave a speech on the [Senate] floor, talking about babies, 30 babies. I have 16 of my own grandchildren, and five children.” So suffer the little children, and they will inherit the kingdom of heaven; they just can’t come unto the Senate while Harry stands in the door. (If what happens in Las Vegas is supposed to stay in Las Vegas, how did Harry get out?)
Frustration turned violent Thursday, when a woman rammed her car into a barricade at the White House and then led 20 police cruisers up Pennsylvania Avenue to take a run at the Capitol. Shots were fired. It was not quite clear what she was mad about, but there’s no shortage of prospects. No targets of her rage were hurt, though the cops killed her. It was an unhappy third day of Obamacare.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...#ixzz2gm0sZ16t
Did Obama say "make life as difficult for people as we can" or is that just you lying again?
Starts at the top.
Yeah, Obama is definitely micromanaging the actions of park rangers.
... of the Repug party who started this fight they have lost.
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Op is emotional as usual.
It's crazy seeing what passes for journalism these days. No sources needed whatsoever.“It’s a cheap way to deal with the situation,” an angry man dressed in a Easter Bunny suit says of the harassment. “We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting.”
Washington Times
As if the Republicans didn't block Democrats attempts to extend tax breaks to those earning less than $250,000. Boo hoo, Democrats won't let us just pick and choose what gets funded.
Dems should make a counter offer to get something:
raise capital gains tax to 35%, raise cap on SS contributions to $500K applied to earned and unearned income
in return, delay the individual mandate for 1 year.
I agree. That way we know they are at least still alive.
Obama has Park Rangers on speed dial? lol
There were no shutdowns when Bubba was president.
It's the executive branch's policy.
The crazies, racists, militiamen, anarchists are in his party, not in the Dems.There were no shutdowns when Bubba was president.
Repugs did ram through the biggest tax cut in history in 2001, esp for the wealthy, through reconciliation in the Senate, which, along with invading Iraq, were their main PNAC objectives in getting elected.
The right’s government shutdown conspiracy theories
It’s the second week of the government shutdown, and while the right is still confused about whether the shutdown is a good thing, one thing is certain: any and all negative repercussions from it are not only Democrats’ fault, but the result of a “sadistic” master plan to turn the American people against the Republican Party.
“Obama views the shutdown as just a game,” writes Rachel Alexander for Townhall. She continues:
One senior level Obama administration official gloated, “We are winning.” Obama is cruelly playing with Americans’ emotions in order to beat the Republicans. He shut down veterans’ memorials, requiring World War II veterans to break down barriers in order to see a memorial set up for them. Obama is counting on the cruel, unnecessary shutdown of certain areas of government to anger Americans against Republicans, and not see it as a carefully plotted maneuver by the left.
National Review’s Jim Geraghty doesn’t allege any “carefully plotted” schemes from the left, but he does go so far as accuse Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of “sadism.” In response to the House’s passing a bill to guarantee back-pay for furloughed federal workers, Geraghty writes:
This is quite the revealing moment, as the leadership of the Democratic party and federal government workers are supposed to be the best of friends — symbiotic, really. But when the moment comes to help out federal workers, Harry Reid drags his feet. The only plausible motivation is that the Democrats’ strategy for “winning” the shutdown fight requires maximizing the pain to as many Americans as possible, so that the pressure is maximized on the GOP opposition to accept a deal that amounts to unconditional surrender.
“Harry Reid doesn’t want to minimize the pain of the shutdown,” Geraghty writes. “He wants to maximize it.”
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/07/the_...racy_theories/
a shutdown is a shutdown, period.
There are no crazies, racists, militiamen, and anarchists in the Democratic Party? You serious? Put down that koolaid, sir. Didn't Joe Biden basically write the Patriot Act? Aren't Reid and Pelosi huge supporters of the Patriot Act and NDAA?
^^ Shhh. It's OK when Democrats do it.
pretty much
"There are no crazies, racists, militiamen, and anarchists in the Democratic Party?"
go find them and let us know.
So everyone in the Democratic Party is a saint? Yes or no?
you're free to belive that, you said it.
go find the Dem crazies, racists, white supremacists, tri-cornered assholes, extreme leftist anarchists and let us know.
Repugs WON their sociopathic budget, no need to "conference", no ing "conversation", nothing.
less, chicken slimebag Boner brings the CR vote and let's see what happens.
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