Government Closed, Sun Still Expected To Rise

[Gaspar]

Forces also dispatched to the MLK Memorial.  It's hard to close these open parks.  Requires lots of security and barricades.

[Townsend]

For what it's worth, Jon Stewart's take:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/jon-stewart-house-republican-morons_n_4029406.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

Because, frankly, in Oklahoma, we can't do much about it.

[Gaspar]

The Obama administration has ordered the erection of additional Barrycades at the (normally open 24hrs) Lincoln Memorial too.


The same group of WWII vets that broke through the barrycades at the WWII memorial yesterday are planning to storm the barrycades at the Lincoln Memorial today.  This should be interesting.

Greatest Generation!

[Gaspar]

HonorFlight has just posted "it's about to get crazier" as the vets are planning to tear down the barrycades at the WWII memorial again at 11am (Eastern) this morning.  About 15 minutes.

[Townsend]

HonorFlight has just posted "it's about to get crazier" as the vets are planning to tear down the barrycades at the WWII memorial again at 11am (Eastern) this morning.  About 15 minutes.

[swake]

Forces also dispatched to the MLK Memorial.  It's hard to close these open parks.  Requires lots of security and barricades.

Good. It provides a visible and public reminder to the stupidity that is shutting down the government due the wants of ~30 House Tea Party idiots who don't care about good governance or the damage they are doing to the economy. And better to fight now than in two weeks. These fools need to publicly humiliated and broken before we get to the fight over the debt ceiling. Obama and the Democrats should not give an inch on this or there's going to be a new and even worse blackmail list in two weeks. It's time to stop allowing the Tea Party to hold 300 million people hostage. The best way to prevent future shutdowns is to not negotiate.

[AquaMan]

Unfortunately that's also the mindset of the TP'ers.

Heard Cruz on NPR today. Apparently he thinks every conversation is a filibuster. What a nit.

[Gaspar]

Breached without incident.

Group led by Democrat Senator Clare McCaskill who was horrified by the spectacle.

[Gaspar]

on to the Lincoln Memorial next.

Looks like the admin is in retreat on this buffoonery.

[carltonplace]

Seriously I am not sure that the Republican Party will survive this if it goes on for a couple of weeks and they also force a default on the debt.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/congress-approval-government-shutdown-2013-97617.html

I'm sure this is their plan: to keep the government closed until they can pair the debt limit default as an additional bullet in the chamber.

[Gaspar]

I'm sure this is their plan: to keep the government closed until they can pair the debt limit default as an additional bullet in the chamber.

Oh, I am certain of it.  Why have two battles a couple of months apart, if you can get everyone to the table at once and be done with it?

[patric]

The Obama administration has ordered the erection of additional Barrycades at the (normally open 24hrs) Lincoln Memorial too.

I applaud the tenacity of the vets as they exercise a bit of non-violent civil disobedience, but what you are seeing is routine for NPS Park Police.
If they cant protect the site with their presence, they have to work out a way to protect it in their absence.
(Disclosure:  Having spent years as a National Parks Service Volunteer I got to walk the walk, so to speak).

[nathanm]

I am certain Fox News would be just as supportive of some OWS participants trespassing on government property.

..sorry, missed a not there.

[patric]

I am certain Fox News would be just as supportive of some OWS participants trespassing on government property.
..sorry, missed a not there.

That's right, I forgot we are trend-setters

Just flushing the sinuses out of any possible brain-eating amoeba with some handy bear repellant.

[Townsend]