Maybe so. But when you’re a good man on the right side of history, sometimes you have to sacrifice a few pawns to clear the board for your clean run to a Utopian checkmate. Such sacrifices weigh heavily on our faculty lounge Presiddent, make no mistake. But in the end, his essential decency — and his love of country, which is in no way negated by the policies he pushes that seek to fundamentally transform it into a Marxist police state disguised as a functioning “democracy” — insulates him from charges of callousness and indifference to the suffering of the few. Because He is concerned about the welfare of the many.
For that he needs be praised. Because heavy is the head that wears the crown and all that sort of shit.
All of which is a preemptive answer to the following, no doubt written by teabagging racists who would elevate individual liberty to absurd heights of beatification — even if that meant not everyone would be entitled to their right to the labor of others.
How far are President Obama and congressional Democrats willing to go to shift blame for the government shutdown to House Republicans? The list is steadily lengthening, but it is instructive to review the examples thus far as the shutdown enters a second week:
– World War II veterans: When a delegation of aged Mississippi veterans of World War II showed up at their memorial last week, they encountered barricade fences erected by the National Park Service to block access to the expansive, open-air facility. Aided by sympathetic House Republicans, the vets pushed the political barricades aside. When a similar scene happened the next day, Park Service officials “allowed” access for the visiting vets — many in their 80s and unlikely ever to have another chance for such an occasion — in consideration of their First Amendment rights. It was the first of a series of cheap shots by the Obama administration.
— Uh, cheap shots? Did they not eventually allow the plebes to worship at their nostalgic altar? Of course they did. This shows beneficence, not malfeasance. The King is of a goodly heart.
But I digress:
– On the other side of the country, a Nevada couple were given 24 hours to leave because their home rested on federal land. Ralph and Joyce Spencer, 80 and 77 years old, respectively, did as ordered. The NPS told a local news outlet that “unfortunately, overnight stays are not permitted until a budget is passed and the park can reopen.” The Spencers have been “overnighting” in their home for more than three decades.
— Well, rules are rules. So I don’t really see why the Spencers should receive special treatment just because they are elderly. In fact, had a faction of right wing extremists not held up ObamaCare implementation, right now the Spencers could be enjoying a nice palliative morphine drip on their way to freeing up space for younger, more productive citizens to grab a lakefront property!
– At Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, the NPS blocked motorists’ access to overlooks where Americans for generations have stopped to take photographs of the majestic granite likenesses of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt. And just across the Potomac River from the Obama White House, the Claude Moore Colonial Farm was closed by the NPS despite the fact it is privately owned and operated and hasn’t received federal funding for 30 years.
Sure, if you’re going to cherry pick it sounds bad. But what about NPR and PBS and all the oil refineries on public lands being left open, eh? What about those deferrals? So you see? We have a discerning President who picks and chooses who to be made an example of — reluctantly — in order to restore order. This is called leadership. So in your face!
If these examples seem intended primarily to prove somebody’s political point by maximizing the pain of the shutdown, it’s because that has been exactly the goal of the Obama administration. That’s not an editorial opinion — it’s what Park Service rangers were told to do, according to one who talked to the Washington Times.
Lies! Traitorous lies by traitors to their governmental function. I hope they are found and scolded appropriately. Then jailed with that film maker who assassinated our Ambassador in Libya. Metaphorically, at least.
But the two most telling illustrations had a common element in the most vulnerable among us: the ill and missing children. In the former, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was asked by CNN’s Dana Bash why not support a House Republican bill to fund the National Institutes for Health “if it would save one child’s life”. Reid’s cranky response: “Why would we do that?”
In the latter, the Washington Examiner first reported Sunday evening that the Department of Justice had taken down the government’s Amber Alert website “due to the lapse in government funding.” Within hours, thousands of people were talking about the closure via Facebook, Twitter and other social media. Other news organizations picked up the story and by noon yesterday, the web site that has helped save so many kidnapped children was restored. Somebody, starting in the Oval Office, should be ashamed.
Well,there’s your fatal flaw: you can’t shame the righteous. And ensuring that all Americans (save the leader class and their cronies) are shuttled into pens of conformity is the height of egalitarian fairness. Why do you hate equality and fairness, Washington Times? And really, if a few kids with poor prognoses have to drop dead in order that the Greater Good is served, they should be thanked for their sacrifice — and the unblinking King applauded for his willingness to deflect cheap emotional appeals to do what is right: impose upon us a system of health insurance we claim we don’t want, only because we are too dull to realize its greatness and compassion.
And that, Washington Examiner, is what is called being pwned!
Workers of the world unite!
The Worker’s Paradise is good at one thing and one thing only: ushering workers into Paradise in wholesale lots.
Does anybody recall the extreme reluctance TheClownDisasterWife held prior to TheClownDisaster’s decision to enter the race to the Presidency (and with victory, omnipotence) in early 2007? Is there any wonder at what considerations were plaguing her comfortable sleep, her hesitance to acquiesce?
Yes, of course her more prudent view was overcome: her vanity prevailed. But she knew what it meant. Odds are, even, she still knows. The story, after all, isn’t complete.
Greetings:
Welcome to the New Jim Crow. Forward !!!
Hope this outrageous story gets some traction:
“Vaillancourt was one of thousands of people who found themselves in a national park as the federal government shutdown went into effect on Oct. 1. For many hours her tour group, which included senior citizen visitors from Japan, Australia, Canada and the United States, were locked in a Yellowstone National Park hotel under armed guard.
The tourists were treated harshly by armed park employees, she said, so much so that some of the foreign tourists with limited English skills thought they were under arrest….”
http://preview.tinyurl.com/nzqyctb
Additional from Libby’s link.
In Obama’s “America” there shall be no “recreating.”
I’m surprised they didn’t board up the windows.
If only there had been some WWII vets in that tour group. The pushy little honey bear might’ve been beaten to death with canes and walkers.
I’m surprised King Barack hasn’t paid to launch a rocket to the moon to drop a tarp over the Mare Tranquillatatis. Probably would have if this bill to declare the Apollo 11 landing site a National Park had gotten out of committee.
pResident Bumbles is on the teevee lying about the debt ceiling again.
“We gonna de-fault! We gonna de-fault!!” he shrieks.
I really hate that guy.
I’ll never be able to look at a park ranger the same again. Nazi bastards believe the country belongs to them and their masters in DC.
Now he’s claiming Granny isn’t going to get her SSI and Vet’s will be met with empty mailboxes.
Plus, he’s monologuing and hogging all the question time by filling it full of stupid.
Which, as either geoffb or sdferr noted yesterday, puts the lie to the oft-repeated nonsense that Sosh’Securrity money is in a “lockbox”, safer than Fort Knox and certainly safer than those fly-by-night outfits known as NYSE and NASDAQ.
So at least Dear Leader has cleared that fallacy up once and for all.
Since Drudge has chosen to feature it, we may as well set to work:
Ge–sta–po stands for: “Geheimes” [Secret] “Staats” [State] “Polizei” [Police]
But — Hey! as Uncle Si would say, there’s nothing secret about these twats. They’re right out in the open.
So: “Offen” [Open] “Staats” [State] “Polizei” [Police] yields — Offstapo.
And with the toker’s twist, Offstapopo.
That’s exactly right, Darth.
He looks nervous and is talking too much. Now he’s telling Boehner how to do his job. That’s our job, Bumbles, not yours.
Yogi thought he was going to score lots of pic- a-nic baskets with the rangers furloughed until Boo Boo had to remind him that with no tourists there were no pic-a-nic baskets.
– Bumblefuck is simply reverting to form, as he slides deeper and deeper into Progressive agit-speak, name calling and empty attempts to shame others for doing the sensible thing that invaribly puts the lie to his Marxo-Socialist bullshit.
– But hey, I welcome him and his brain dead followers to make every mistake possible and fuck-up at every turn for the next three years. At least that way the chances their crappola cult movement will be burried for a good long time will be improved, and thats a;ways a good thing.
My big worry, BBH, is that we’ll be so busy digging ourselves out that we’ll have little time left over for burying their cult.
“[W]e may share information provided in your application with the appropriate authorities for law enforcement and audit activities.”
– The politoboro of the Utopia is in session.
– The interogations, reeducation, and beatings will continue until the Narrative© is memorized.
Don’t worry Squid. We’ll burn them to keep warm this winter, if need be.
– Here’s a toast to that fine day when Progressives will be included on the endangered species list.
It’s like the old philosopher once said: Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for an evening; set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
*** Breaking: “A good start”
– Apparently Pelosi escaped.
And we’ll be warm for an evening and perhaps make s’mores over his spitting hide.
– House Republicans propose “Super committee” made up of members of house and senate to debate economic situation and solutions.
– Will it work. Are the CommieCrats getting desperate enough to finally agree to something. Probably not. The Left is scarred any compromise will open a door on OCare wide enough to drive the Queen Mary II through. That much is obvious at this point, even to the LoFo™ voters.
’ll never be able to look at a park ranger the same again. Nazi bastards believe the country belongs to them and their masters in DC.
Tell me about it. A year ago, the concept of “NPS Park Ranger goons” would have been laughable; who knew they’d be the all-too-willing footsoldiers in our delightful little reenactment of ’30s Germany.
Though I suppose the brown shirts might have been a tip-off.
I’m now eyeing my UPS delivery guy suspiciously, looking for early warning signs of Fascism.
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