Posted on 10/02/2013 10:07:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
At Marion Park on Capitol Hill, two fence gates were chained closed, but one was not, and a group of children played inside.
At the Korean War Veterans Memorial, on the Mall, the entrance was blocked with barricades, but visitors just walked around the barriers and entered.
At the closed-off National World War II Memorial, two days of assaults by veterans prompted the National Park Service to announce that they had the legal right to be there and would not be barred in the future.
Across federal Washington on Wednesday, the government shutdown was leaking badly — partly as a result of citizen contrarians, war veterans, politicians and the difficulty of enforcement by the National Park Service....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
“...two days of assaults by veterans...”
sigh... but it IS the Washington comPost, after all...
Good point. This intransigence to carry out our lord and savior Lord Holy O’s Supreme Orders by National Park Service, etc., i.e. their looking the other way and letting people cross barrycades, will cause him to have epipleptic seizure-level fits of rage right there in the Oval Office.
The only way for Obama to get the People upset over the Gov’t shutdown is by closing parks, and the People are just ignoring them!
I am surprised the sign didn’t have ‘because of the GOP’ on it.
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