Who was it that said "A 'gaffe' is when a politician tells the truth were you can hear it" ?
“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.”
I admit that one of my first thoughts is "But you don't mind doing it, do you, you bastard."
Speaking of which,
The Claude Moore Colonial Farm has already had to cancel all of its events at a loss of roughly $15,000. As the farm depends entirely on itself for survival, there is a growing likelihood that it may not survive the National Park Service’s decision to close it. The farm remained open during every single previous government spending standoff.
Eberly says that so far, the National Park Service is not even responding to her queries about the barricades. The silence does not seem to be an effect of a lack of personnel due to the shutdown, because the NPS has been very busy deploying barricades and shutting down self-sufficient parks all over the country.
And please note that it appears the NPS has no legal right to close it. But, being feds under Obama, they did it anyway.
And next time some idiot like Harry Reid whines "What right does the House have" to say something about spending,
Federalist 58:
The House of Representatives cannot only refuse, but they alone can propose, the supplies requisite for the support of government. They, in a word, hold the purse that powerful instrument by which we behold, in the history of the British Constitution, an infant and humble representation of the people gradually enlarging the sphere of its activity and importance, and finally reducing, as far as it seems to have wished, all the overgrown prerogatives of the other branches of the government. This power over the purse may, in fact, be regarded as the most complete and effectual weapon with which any constitution can arm the immediate representatives of the people, for obtaining a redress of every grievance, and for carrying into effect every just and salutary measure.Thanks to Jawa Report for noting this
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I think I may have been the first one to do that one, in the Dallas Observer comments. I know the wife put it on facebook, but if it's already made it back around, that's impressive.
Add that to my "watergate didn't have a bodycount" fame. :)
And I say that it's my find because that was my exact bolding.
The House can, in its next budget iteration, eliminate all funding for the National Park Service. All of it.
Then remove the agency's name from the list of federal agencies, and divest the fed.gov of all national parks, transferring them to the states in which they are located. While the properties would come with heavy obligations to keep the parks open and running, I suspect each of the 57 states would enjoy the opportunity to gain revenue from the parks and demonstrate how much more efficiently they could be run.
There's a simple way to end the shutdown and get things back on track. Lock both houses of Congress, along with the President, in a single windowless room with only one toilet. Don't give them anything to eat or drink except strong black coffee and beans. My bet is we'd have a balanced budget agreement before the end of the week.
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