By Michael R Shannon
Americans are learning to their great surprise that Smokey the Bear has big, sharp teeth.
Formerly warm and cuddly branches of government — the Park Service, Forest Service and other granola–based management teams — have suddenly turned on innocent taxpayers who only wanted to scratch behind their ears.
You're no doubt familiar with the WWII veterans who removed barriers the US Park Police erected to block the formerly law enforcement–free WWII Monument on the Mall. (Best sign of the Shutdown: "Normandy was closed when we got there, too.") But that's only one of many incidents.
The Washington Post interviewed a visitor from San Antonio who "expressed indignation at the petty ways that officials prevented people from enjoying national landmarks." Her family had no problem looking at the cemetery itself since putting barriers in front of each tombstone was too much for even Smokey Bear. But they were unable to peek inside Arlington House because "they put black plastic in the windows so we couldn't look in."...
Formerly warm and cuddly branches of government — the Park Service, Forest Service and other granola–based management teams — have suddenly turned on innocent taxpayers who only wanted to scratch behind their ears.
You're no doubt familiar with the WWII veterans who removed barriers the US Park Police erected to block the formerly law enforcement–free WWII Monument on the Mall. (Best sign of the Shutdown: "Normandy was closed when we got there, too.") But that's only one of many incidents.
The Washington Post interviewed a visitor from San Antonio who "expressed indignation at the petty ways that officials prevented people from enjoying national landmarks." Her family had no problem looking at the cemetery itself since putting barriers in front of each tombstone was too much for even Smokey Bear. But they were unable to peek inside Arlington House because "they put black plastic in the windows so we couldn't look in."...
As the shutdown continues it's obvious there is an air of desperation surrounding this whole petty, vindictive exercise on the part of the Obama Administration. The illegality, over reaction and simply hateful response of "public servants" to the actual public is so obvious even the media can no longer ignore it.
The question is why the federal tantrum? The answer is the Spite House (thank you Michelle Malkin) can't afford to lose this fight like they did the sequester. Instead of being "the end of life as we knew it," the sequester has become an accepted fact of life. Sequester was designed to be so destructive to defense that responsible Republicans would rescue the Pentagon, even if it meant more deficit spending on social programs.
The calculation failed. Setting a spending cut precedent was so important Republicans decided the 2,666 miles separating China from the USA would have to defend the country for now. In the event of a Chinese invasion, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D–LaRaza) would remove any hostile intent by putting them on the fast track to citizenship.
Budget talks now start with the sequester cuts as the baseline, and not an extraordinary one–time nick to the budget. Obamacrats can't risk the public leaning they can function without 100 percent of the federal government.
Which is why duplicitous, politically motivated "public servants" are working hand–in–hand with the White House to provide the maximum inconvenience with the least blame for the administration. A painless 5 percent sequester, followed by a 17 percent government shutdown that isn't a disaster for someone might create a climate where rolling back the size of government becomes a reality.
The question is why the federal tantrum? The answer is the Spite House (thank you Michelle Malkin) can't afford to lose this fight like they did the sequester. Instead of being "the end of life as we knew it," the sequester has become an accepted fact of life. Sequester was designed to be so destructive to defense that responsible Republicans would rescue the Pentagon, even if it meant more deficit spending on social programs.
The calculation failed. Setting a spending cut precedent was so important Republicans decided the 2,666 miles separating China from the USA would have to defend the country for now. In the event of a Chinese invasion, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D–LaRaza) would remove any hostile intent by putting them on the fast track to citizenship.
Budget talks now start with the sequester cuts as the baseline, and not an extraordinary one–time nick to the budget. Obamacrats can't risk the public leaning they can function without 100 percent of the federal government.
Which is why duplicitous, politically motivated "public servants" are working hand–in–hand with the White House to provide the maximum inconvenience with the least blame for the administration. A painless 5 percent sequester, followed by a 17 percent government shutdown that isn't a disaster for someone might create a climate where rolling back the size of government becomes a reality.
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