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 their congressman – Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) – assisted in removing the barricades, telling MRCTV’s Dan Joseph they thought King’s actions were “wonderful.”
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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) appeared to corroborate the story, telling MRCTV that congressional “Republicans led the veterans in.”
“These are guys are that were not stopped by Nazis, Fascists, Axis powers, kamikazes…these guys made it through all that, and this is their memorial,” Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) told Joseph.
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OT: Tom Clancy is dead at 66.
I’ll have to fire up Patriot Games and raise a glass.
…and all of a sudden, President “I’m A Better Strategist Than My Strategists”(TM) wants to “negotiate.”
And Harry “The Gravedug” Reid is heard to mutter “I’m not a criminal. I’m not a scoundrel.” Sorry, Harry. If you have to tell people that, then it ain’t so.
How critical is it for to the purpose of Obama’s mission that the term “summons” appears in both the headline and the body of that article, TW?
Summons? I have some words for that.
It is critical. He has to appear to be “above the fray” as the man of “no labels” who will bring the brawling brats together to work out a deal. Any bets on the shape of the table and where Obama will be seated?
From the article: “On Capitol Hill, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said the shuttering of the government ‘seriously damages our ability to protect the safety and security of this nation and its citizens.'”
This seems like an awfully bad time for our spymasters to be whining publicly that we don’t give them enough money to snoop around in our private affairs.
I’m thinking that there is no Round Table at the WH.
Any bets on the shape of the table and where Obama will be seated?
There will be no table. The wizard, the ranger, the dwarf and the elf will stand before King Barry, who sits upon his throne with Wormtongue always whispering in his ear.
Squid, 70% of Clapper’s minions have been deemed “non-essential”.
That explains a lot.
If by “mission” you mean his daily efforts to stoke his overweening ego, sdferr, then the answer is “extremely.”
Given the antics of Obama and Reid, what with their trying to make things as tough as possible, I have a hard time seeing Clapper’s statement as anything other than a threat.
Also, I just love the authors choice of adverbs:
Along with Reid’s idea of “compromise”
These people have no self respect.
heh, TW
And all the more so at the very moment his appeal falls the farthest and fastest. Pretty fucking comical moves from the Sycophants-for-The-Clown-Disaster crowd.
All of the government website “shutdowns” are especially hilarious. How much does it cost to just leave things exactly as they are? If they’re truly shutting them down (and not just making a transparent attempt to “show how horrible a government shutdown is,”) then they should pull the damn plug on the web servers. That, at least would save on the electric bill.
And, God save us all, Michelle ma belle had to stop tweeting because of the shutdown. Whisky Tango Foxtrot?