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House Republicans seek probe of D.C. monument closures[W:120]

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Nope, I don't see that at all. The true Tea Party types are only interested in the financial health of the country. They want reduced debt, reduced deficits, and reduced taxes. The social issues aren't really issues of government to them. They're like Canadian conservatives in that regard.

Too funny! You don't the districts these Tea Partiers represent.

They are only worried about being reelected.
Most are from republican gerrymandered districts and if they don't fight healthcare a different republican will be elected to represent their district.
 
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That's deemed "essential", apparently. ..

It is essential security.
 
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It is essential security.

There's no security when it IS open. See, this is why a probe is needed. Someone is either incompetent or abusive.
 
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It is essential security.
Did you maintain a straight face when you typed that?

Anyway, ok, let's run with that. We'll even keep this to a single example to avoid confusion. Let's use the example somebody else posted earlier in this thread where they coned off scenic highway pull-outs so that people could not take photos of Mt Rushmore. Areas that are otherwise unblocked and unmanned 24/7.

Please articulate how that act was "essential".
 
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Did you maintain a straight face when you typed that?

Anyway, ok, let's run with that. We'll even keep this to a single example to avoid confusion. Let's use the example somebody else posted earlier in this thread where they coned off scenic highway pull-outs so that people could not take photos of Mt Rushmore. Areas that are otherwise unblocked and unmanned 24/7.

Please articulate how that act was "essential".

The park service said they placed the cones there to channel traffic not to block off the pull- outs.
Anyway the cones have been removed.
 
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Perhaps he will also investigate this 'idiocity'...

The National Park Service placed cones along highway viewing areas outside Mount Rushmore this week, barring visitors from pulling over and taking pictures of the famed monument.

http://www.argusleader.com/article/...e-stirs-anger-in-S-D-?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1

Really? Cones along a public highway to prevent viewing of a National Monument...And I'm sure they used a contractor to place the cones (not even gov't employees)...
I bet if they had a tarp big enough they'd have covered the mountain as well so nobody could even see it.
 
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I bet if they had a tarp big enough they'd have covered the mountain as well so nobody could even see it.

too funny!

In fact there is photo shopped photo of two helicopters in front of Mt. Rushmore holding a movie screen which is blocking the monument.
 
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The park service said they placed the cones there to channel traffic not to block off the pull- outs.
Anyway the cones have been removed.
And you believe that? You're either a sucker or your being willfully disingenuous and partisan and argumentative.

But, just for fun, let's say you're right. Why weren't the cones there prior to the shutdown? Traffic channeling wasn't an issue previously. Can you explain the "coincidence" that they were suddenly needed at this particular time?

Also note that they were only removed after the state complained and not even the local feds could justify the absurdity of it... yet here you are trying to do what even they cannot.
 
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too funny!

In fact there is photo shopped photo of two helicopters in front of Mt. Rushmore holding a movie screen which is blocking the monument.
I haven't seen that, but it would be funny.
 
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If the govt and its monuments are closed why were illegal aliens / criminals who should be arrested by LE allowed to march on the Capital Mall, build a stage / podium and have an "event?" How can they close off a cement structure and not the capital mall?
 
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If the govt and its monuments are closed why were illegal aliens / criminals who should be arrested by LE allowed to march on the Capital Mall, build a stage / podium and have an "event?" How can they close off a cement structure and not the capital mall?

As I understand it, that's a "1st Amendment event" and cannot legally be denied over something like a government shutdown.
 
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Too funny! You don't the districts these Tea Partiers represent.

They are only worried about being reelected.
Most are from republican gerrymandered districts and if they don't fight healthcare a different republican will be elected to represent their district.

I'm sorry - what part of representative government don't you understand or respect? If the people in a politician's district, otherwise known as the constituents he/she represents, expect their representative to keep their promises and do as they say when they got elected, how is that funny? What's funny is people thinking that honest and consistent politicians are somehow dangerous or a threat to democracy - that's what's really funny.
 
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“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.”

Read more: PRUDEN: The cheap tricks of the game - Washington Times
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Who would be against investigating this?
 
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I'm sorry - what part of representative government don't you understand or respect? If the people in a politician's district, otherwise known as the constituents he/she represents, expect their representative to keep their promises and do as they say when they got elected, how is that funny? .

My "too funny" comment was to what you posted about the Tea Party representatives are interested in the financial health of our country ...not the fact that they are trying to defund the ACA.

Edited to add ...
now you finally admit that they just trying to keep promises made so they can be reelected.
 
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So the people that want to see the prudent memorials built in the area should just demand to speak in front of them - problem solved?

As I understand it, that's a "1st Amendment event" and cannot legally be denied over something like a government shutdown.
 
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My "too funny" comment was to what you posted about the Tea Party representatives are interested in the financial health of our country ...not the fact that they are trying to defund the ACA.

Edited to add ...
now you finally admit that they just trying to keep promises made so they can be reelected.
Isn't that what pretty much all politician do, regardless of party affiliation?


So the people that want to see the prudent memorials built in the area should just demand to speak in front of them - problem solved?
I didn't say it was right or wrong, good or bad, I just explained the difference.
 
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Actually while I totally agree with you that this is both parties fault I do have to say that Republicans actually are compromising more than the Democrats on this. Republicans first demanded that Obamacare get totally defunded. When Democrats said no to that the Republicans reduced their demand to allowing regular civilians the same exentions that both Big Business and Congress got. Where as Democrats have said no to everything regarding this situation.


Considering the past behaviour of Republicans in this matter, that is demanding one concession this time then still more at the next round of talks, I think the President is right in refusing to negotiate on the ACA. Unlike the righties who continually babble about his Marxist tendencies, I see the President as slightly conservative and willing to accept many actions that have been proposed by Republicans during past administrations.

The whole framework of "Obamacare" was proposed by Republicans as an alternative to the Clinton's healthcare plans in 1992-3 but now that Black Guy in the White House has successfully moved it to the stage of implementation, it becomes socialism. Weird
 
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My "too funny" comment was to what you posted about the Tea Party representatives are interested in the financial health of our country ...not the fact that they are trying to defund the ACA.

Edited to add ...
now you finally admit that they just trying to keep promises made so they can be reelected.

Firstly, defunding all or part of the ACA is showing an interest in the financial health of your country. Since Obama and Democrats promised that the ACA wouldn't cost the federal government any money and when fully implemented in 10 years would save the country hundreds of billions, just what funding is needed? Shouldn't it be self-funded if Obama and Democrats actually kept their election promises?

Secondly, I didn't "finally admit" anything. I've been saying for month, years, decades, that politicians who get elected on certain promises should keep their promises or lose their seats. What's new about respecting tea party candidates who are doing just that. I respect that they are keeping their promises and hope that the people who elected them will respect and honor those promises kept by reelecting them and more like them.
 
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Speaking of "high ground" and the Administration's lack of it here, it's funny that rallies they're sympathetic to can still happen on the "closed" National Mall:

Park Service OKs immigration reform rally on 'closed' National Mall | WashingtonExaminer.com


And the President's favorite golf course is still open on an air force base, while grocery stores at army bases have been closed due to the shutdown:

Troops Forage for Food While Golfers Play On in Shutdown - Bloomberg


You really should read your cited/linked articles before using them as support for your viewpoint

Park Service OKs immigration reform rally on 'closed' National Mall | WashingtonExaminer.com
Susana Flores, a spokesperson for the rally, confirmed for the Washington Examiner that the Park Service will allow the event to take place under the group's rights granted by the First Amendment.

Troops Forage for Food While Golfers Play On in Shutdown - Bloomberg
The seeming randomness of the U.S. government’s first shutdown in 17 years can be explained in part by anomalies in the spending Congress does and doesn’t control. Activities funded by fees from drug, financial-services and other companies are insulated from year-to-year budget dysfunction. The ones that get a budget from Congress get hit.

The Andrews Air Force Base golf course is funded through user fees and that’s why it remains open, said Air Force Captain Lindy Singleton, chief of public affairs for the 11th Wing at Andrews.
 
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You really should read your cited/linked articles before using them as support for your viewpoint

I'm fully aware of what they said. These are excuses. There are plenty of privately-funded areas/facilities shut down over the objections of the owners simply because they sit on federal land, or their parking lots do, and there are plenty of permits denied. You should pay more attention.

This level of shutdown of park/memorial land is unprecedented as to any other government shutdown.
 
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The whole framework of "Obamacare" was proposed by Republicans as an alternative to the Clinton's healthcare plans in 1992-3

It was proposed by some republicans. Other republicans proposed an entirely different kind of legislation. It never gained anything near across the board Republican support, and was even quickly abandoned the same year once additional information regarding the costs of the plan would occur. Furthermore, there are a plethora of differences between that 92 plan and the ACA in a variety of ways that makes the assertion that one is basically equal to the other and should be equally supported patently dishonest. Finally, you're speaking of a TWO DECADES old piece of legislation that never gained significant steam or support, put forward at a time where the historic norm of the day was that Republicans would likely rarely, if ever, have a chance of actually negotiating form a superior position within Congress and thus had to significantly compromise from the very onset for almost any measure...significantly different than the political climate now where we it's became clear that there is legitimate opportunities to control congress and thus massively compromising all the time isn't the ONLY chance the Republicans have to ever get anything passed.

But forgive me for interrupting your throw away bit of propaganda.
 
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Who would be against investigating this?

What do your think the investigation would reveal? That politician do things for political reasons that Park Service rangers don't approve of?

This is classic political theater. The government is shutdown, and Obama's people believe that it's best to keep that in the forefront of peoples minds, because they believes it supports his position.

Do you really need an investigation for that?
 
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Firstly, defunding all or part of the ACA is showing an interest in the financial health of your country. Since Obama and Democrats promised that the ACA wouldn't cost the federal government any money and when fully implemented in 10 years would save the country hundreds of billions, just what funding is needed? Shouldn't it be self-funded if Obama and Democrats actually kept their election promises?
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I disagree.
Defunding the ACA will not save the USA money and The President never promised it would save country hundreds of billions when fully implemented.

You seem to be confusing the ACA with the original plan which was supposed to include a public option in the exchanges.

Once the public option was eliminated so were most of the savings.

With the ACA the rate of costs will be slowed but not necessarily lowered.
 
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