Don't ya just LOVE Shutdown Theater?
Shutdown theater is Obama's penchant for making shutdowns worse than they need to be.
For example, the Capitol Park Police doing more work than needed to erect barriers to entry to the WWII memorial in the Mall. No one "works" here; there are no Park Rangers. It's a friggin' monument. And it is policed by the Capitol Park Police, who are, of course, still on the job.
Nevertheless, Obama is doing Shutdown Theater so he had his Imperial Troops erect barriers to keep people from seeing it.
Some visiting veterans rejected the Shutdown Theater.
That's just friggin hilarious. They spent MORE money and MORE manpower to try and close off the WWII memorial than it would take to simply leave it be like it normally would be. But the Vets were having NONE OF IT. And rightly so! Go greatest generation!
Oh I don't know. I'd say Piers Morgan in nuclear hissy-fit meltdown kinda tops it for sheer comedy value.
Loved the opening tweet:
Oh piers Morgan, take it down a few notches. Statue of Liberty closing to tourists does not equal freedom's death.
And here's an "exit question" of my own -
Who actually visits the Statue of Liberty at midnight when it's closed ANYWAY?
Drama queens from CNN and democrats trying to invoke political theater, that's who. (But I repeat myself)
Update: Both ABC and WaPo have picked up the story. Money quote from the latter:
Shutdown theater is Obama's penchant for making shutdowns worse than they need to be.
For example, the Capitol Park Police doing more work than needed to erect barriers to entry to the WWII memorial in the Mall. No one "works" here; there are no Park Rangers. It's a friggin' monument. And it is policed by the Capitol Park Police, who are, of course, still on the job.
Nevertheless, Obama is doing Shutdown Theater so he had his Imperial Troops erect barriers to keep people from seeing it.
Some visiting veterans rejected the Shutdown Theater.
Quote:The video will no doubt be glorious but I can’t find any yet. For the time being, we’ll have to rely on Stars & Stripes reporter Leo Shane, who was on the scene when GOP Rep. Steve King distracted a park cop so that the vets could stream in.
They came to Washington to see the memorial, and damn it, they were going to see it.
That's just friggin hilarious. They spent MORE money and MORE manpower to try and close off the WWII memorial than it would take to simply leave it be like it normally would be. But the Vets were having NONE OF IT. And rightly so! Go greatest generation!
Quote:I’m eager to know how it all came together. King was there, I assume, simply to accompany the Iowa vets, but it’s a brilliant bit of publicity to counter the left’s sky-is-falling spin on the shutdown. If the vets had been turned away, it would have become a media passion play about Republican obstructionism thwarting a tender moment among the “Greatest Generation.” As it is, Ace is right — it’s a lesson in the stupidity of shutdown theater, which started last night with the Statue of Liberty and no doubt would have turned to the WWII Memorial had the Honor Flight vets not scrambled the narrative. Turns out you can open an unstaffed national memorial to the public when the government is closed and not have anarchy break out. Who knew?
Exit question via Sonny Bunch: In terms of sheer stupidity, will anything top using websites for shutdown theater?
Oh I don't know. I'd say Piers Morgan in nuclear hissy-fit meltdown kinda tops it for sheer comedy value.
Loved the opening tweet:
Oh piers Morgan, take it down a few notches. Statue of Liberty closing to tourists does not equal freedom's death.
And here's an "exit question" of my own -
Who actually visits the Statue of Liberty at midnight when it's closed ANYWAY?
Drama queens from CNN and democrats trying to invoke political theater, that's who. (But I repeat myself)
Update: Both ABC and WaPo have picked up the story. Money quote from the latter:
Quote:Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) said he believed the Park Service opened the gates. Rep Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.) said the congressmen did it. Rep. Steven M. Palazzo (R-Miss.) said the barricades just seemed to part.
“I’m not going to enforce the ‘no stopping or standing’ sign for a group of 90 World War II veterans,” said a U.S. Park Police officer, who declined to give his name. “I’m a veteran myself.”…
“It’s the best civil disobedience we’ve seen in Washington for a long time,” Huizenga told the veterans.