Mark Levin tonight (courtesy of The Right Scoop, who provides a partial transcript): I want to say this loud and clear to the people on Capitol Hill who are listening, to this administration. You lay one damn hand on one of those World War II vets at that memorial and I’ll bring half a million people to that damn memorial! You got that?! I’m sitting here stewing thinking about this

Which, sorry about that.  But my kid’s Daisy Red Rider was just kinda sitting there calling out to me from the hall closet — much like God sometimes calls to Bill O’Reilly when the Lord wants a hackneyed, trite, simplistic book written tout de suite! And who doesn’t like the sound of opaque polycarbonate panels shattering, anyway?  

Second verse, same as the first. In this episode, we answer the burning question, whose fault is it that the we don’t have Panda Cam? And the answer?  James Madison’s, that’s who. Dylan Matthews, “The shutdown is the Constitution’s fault”: This week’s shutdown is only the latest symptom of an underlying disease in our democracy whose origins lie in the Constitution and some supremely misguided ideas that made their way

I’ll be damned, but my automatic sprinklers just went on. Just as I planned! Next up, lunch — and a quick look in the pantry suggests I have a variety of soup choices, should I wish to go that route. So. Crisis averted!

John Nolte, Breitbart: Last week, as the prospect of a federal government shutdown loomed as reality, the President of the United States told the media that he would “not negotiate” with “house burners.” And with that, the American mainstream media threw away their longstanding belief in “civil bipartisan compromise” in order to stand with Obama. Since then, the GOP have passed two bills to avert a shutdown, both Senate Democrats

Maybe this time people will finally see the true face of the left.  From “Blame the Constitution for this mess,” Alex Pareene, Salon: The government shut down. It shut down because Republicans wanted it shut down. More important, it shut down because Republicans have the power to shut it down. This is the disturbing thing: The Republicans are acting rationally. At least, each individual Republican is acting rationally, with maybe

CNS News: The government shut down at midnight earlier this morning, closing memorials in the nation’s capital – but, some visiting veterans weren’t taking “no” for an answer. A group of veterans decided to storm the World War II memorial and pay their respects – aided by Congressional Republicans. The majority of the group was made up of octogenarians, some them pushing ninety. A group of honor veterans from Iowa said that

Courtesy of The Right Scoop. The takeaway:  no matter what the DC-centric media and political class tries to tell you, we are not beholden to the government:   “the federal government is not the country,” and politics matters not a whit when our very liberties as a free people are in jeopardy.   Party matters little here. The time to fight is now, win or lose.  But the time for capitulation is

How many park employees does it take to hang a “closed” sign? It is time we stop dancing around what is happening:  Obama is at war with the American way of life. There is no earthly reason to shut down open air monuments, or deny WWII vets access to their memorial, save a desire to take out your petulance on the American people, to show your power, and to instill

Of course they did.  And we need to keep making them kill and kill and kill and kill and kill — and show that it is they who refuse to fund the non-essential parts of the government, they who refuse to compromise, they who refuse to listen to the American people who don’t want ObamaCare and have applied enough pressure on a consistently timid GOP leadership to force its hand.