Oh no! Squirrels attack First Lady's White House garden during shut down

Squirrels are living high on the hog thanks to the government stalemate – feasting on tomatoes from the First Lady’s beloved White House garden while federal gardeners remain idle. With the shutdown entering its third week, the Park Service gardeners who normally tend the mushrooms, peppers, squash and other tasty items have only been permitted to water the plants. Under the peculiar rules in effect, they are not allowed to rake or weed or even mow the grass. “The tomato plants are now an impressive tangle of browning vines, with ripe Sungolds littering the ground beneath,” writes Eddie Gehman Kohan on her Obama Foodorama blog. “Yellow and brown leaves now remain on crops throughout the garden, including on the potted dwarf papaya tree that sits on one side, now boasting five big green papayas,” she continues. Local squirrels – already a nuisance in D.C. thanks to soft-hearted tourists bearing popcorn and other snacks – have been milking the shutdown as much as camera-hungry politicians. “The squirrels are always a problem in the garden, eating the berry crop in the summer months,” notes Kohan. “But they’re now kids in a candy store, gorging themselves” on Sungolds and other tomatoes...more

You've got to hand it to these squirrels.  They've outwitted all the essential employees, the Secret Service and even the NSA (squirrels don't email, text or use cell phones).  They better watch out though, because if what I've heard about the First Lady is correct, she'll have her hubby declare them enemy combatants and ship them off to Guantanamo.  Last I heard, there are no Park Service gardeners there.  Worse yet, another report says the Pentagon delivered a shipment of mini-drones to the White House yesterday.