Re: Shutdown bad for obama.

Anti Federalist Wed Oct 09, 2013 7:42 am

With any luck, the other 83 percent will shut down too.

News Hawk Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:38 am

Casy wrote:With words of great piety, who fathered this damn anxiety...The Republicans did.

It's interesting to see that Obama must pick-and-choose the most headline-worthy "closings".

With only 17% of Federal workers stopped from "work", Obama has to show that Federal workers actually aren't invisible.

News Hawk Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:40 am

fshnski wrote:... sounds like a Democrat.

A Liberal is one who has an expensive party, and gives the bill to his grandchildren!

Shocked

fshnski Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:40 am

Casy wrote:With words of great piety, who fathered this damn anxiety...The Republicans did.

Once again, another lie from the left. Have the Democrats caused any more pain today? They are under pressure and showing their true colors. It is not about what is good for our country. It is about what is best for them. And they will stoop to any level to punish those that get in the way of their leftist manipulations.

fshnski Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:49 am

The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto a proposal from House Republicans to create a bipartisan, bicameral working group of lawmakers to hammer a deal on fiscal issues.

“The Administration strongly opposes House joint passage of H.J. Res. 89 and H.R. 3273, which does nothing to solve the immediate, pressing obligations the Congress has to open the Government and pay its bills,” said the White House in a statement.

H.J. Res. 89 would ensure that “essential” government employees working through the shutdown receive pay. But the measure is tied to a second bill which would establish a new special committee of lawmakers, similar to the group which negotiated over deficit reduction after the 2011 debt-limit crisis.

The new group would work to resolve the current government shutdown, which is in its second week, and raise the nation’s debt limit by Oct. 17, while seeking further deficit reduction and possible entitlement reforms.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/white-house-says-it-will-veto-gop-proposed-fiscal-committee/article/2536994

News Hawk Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:09 am

Anti Federalist wrote:With any luck, the other 83 percent will shut down too.

How could we tell the entire country was shut down?

('Til Obama tells us?)

News Hawk Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:16 am

These infringements will backfire on Obama...as a foreigner, he doesn't realize the dedication Americans have to their very-appreciated National Parks and their precious memorials to American military heroes.

News Hawk Wed Oct 09, 2013 10:11 am

WHL wrote:Again, pick and choose what makes the shutdown looks the meanest.

Would News Buzzard get upset if Obama shut down "Talk-Radio" using the power of "his" FCC agency?

(Just as Obama has used the IRS and NSA)?

scratch

fshnski Wed Oct 09, 2013 11:33 am

A group of tourists was held under armed guard for hours at Yellowstone National Park last week after the federal government shut down.

As Massachusetts’s Eagle Tribune reports, when a group of four dozen tourists disembarked their bus in the park to photograph a herd of bison, an armed ranger arrived on the scene and ordered them to get back on the bus, telling them they were not allowed to “recreate.”

After an argument between the ranger and the tour guide, the bus continued on to the Old Faithful Inn, which is located adjacently to the Old Faithful geyser. But barricades had been erected around the site of the geyser, and the seniors were locked inside the hotel while armed rangers guarded the door.

According to one guest, Pat Vaillancourt, the treatment the group received was so awful that some of the foreign guests, who had limited English, said they wouldn’t return to the United States.

“They looked like Hulk Hogans, armed. They told us you can’t go outside,” Vaillancourt said. “Some of the Asians who were on the tour said, ‘Oh my God, are we under arrest?’ They felt like they were criminals.”

When the bus was allowed to make the two-and-a-half-hour drive to leave the park, it was not permitted to stop at a private, in-park dude ranch that had a restroom. According to Vaillancourt, the dude ranch had been warned that its license to operate would be revoked if it allowed the bus to stop.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/360661/seniors-held-under-armed-guard-last-week-yellowstone-national-park-sterling-beard

fshnski Wed Oct 09, 2013 11:40 am

The Washington Post typically boosted a leftist rally for amnesty for illegal immigrants, with one major difference – they utterly ignored the hypocrisy of the Obama administration and the National Park Service closing open spaces in Washington, unless a left-wing protest was scheduled.

The Post promoted the rally in a story on A-4 with three photographs and a story on the front page of the Style section on the protest’s musical stars Los Tigres Del Norte. This is the closest either story got to the smothered controversy:

“The rally for immigration reform became a singalong Tuesday afternoon for thousands on the otherwise shutdown Mall,” began the Style section story by David Montgomery, and then it was on to the music: “Los Tigres del Norte — the biggest, most beloved band that many English-speaking Americans have never heard of — were onstage, and almost everyone in the audience seemed to know every word.”

Charlie Spiering of The Washington Examiner detailed the clash of Obama's political goals: "A giant stage with lights and an 'Immigration Reform Now' banner was set up in the center of the mall, along with three large portable screens. On one side of the mall, more than 100 porta potties were set up for protesters who will attend the rally today."

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2013/10/09/washpost-boosts-amnesty-rally-otherwise-shutdown-mall-without-noting-lib#ixzz2hEvVzer6

fshnski Wed Oct 09, 2013 3:04 pm

The federal government is shut down, but that hasn’t stopped agencies from running lots of “help wanted” ads.

More than 4,000 job postings remained active on the federal government’s hiring site as of Tuesday. Although many ads first ran before the shutdown began, nearly 500 posts were placed in the past three days.

The vacancies include some high-priced positions:

a media relations officer job paying up to $155,000 at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the agency in charge of implementing Obamacare, and a senior communications and marketing specialist for the Patent and Trademark Office, making up to $136,000.

The newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau placed an ad Friday for a chief of staff to the chief information officer, a position that advertises a salary of $121,000 to $224,000.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/8/thousands-of-federal-job-openings-posted-in-spite-/#ixzz2hFkXeQzS
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fshnski Wed Oct 09, 2013 3:22 pm

A partial government shutdown just wasn't going to hit people the way the Obama administration needed it to, so officials resorted to some unprecedented acts to make Americans feel the pain, as Conservative Intel's David Freddoso notes:

Most people — even the poor in state-run safety net programs — don’t have that many interactions with the federal government agencies affected right now by the shutdown.

So it’s a challenge to make people notice that your agency is vital to the survival of the Republic. The feds have to apply a lot of force and behave in unsubtle ways to make you angry with Congress.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/6-groups-targeted-to-make-the-shutdown-look-worse/article/2536930

News Hawk Wed Oct 09, 2013 6:37 pm

fshnski wrote:"...a media relations officer job paying up to $155,000 at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the agency in charge of implementing Obamacare, and a senior communications and marketing specialist for the Patent and Trademark Office, making up to $136,000.

Media relations officer job?

What d'ya bet, they'll hire from MSNBC?

Mad

News Hawk Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:48 am

Shutdown shrinks Obama approval-rating to 37%:

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/10/09/ap-poll-obama-at-37-approval/

**WHL** Thu Oct 10, 2013 7:44 am

Yes, I bet that killed the media to report that.

Casy Thu Oct 10, 2013 9:03 am

It's just a lot of "Hot Air" if you ask me.

News Hawk Thu Oct 10, 2013 9:28 am

Casy wrote:It's just a lot of "Hot Air" if you ask me.

Wolf Blitzer can't get over it.

...and...

"LOS ANGELES, CA: "It what looks like a spiteful move, the NPS even removed handles from water spigots along the Chesapeake and Ohio canal where bikers and joggers exercise as well as along the Great Allegheny Passage, just to ensure people don't get any water from them..."

News Hawk Thu Oct 10, 2013 9:44 am

"Meanwhile, because of a lack of Federal funds, government officials allege:
•That a number of privately run businesses situated on public lands must be shuttered.
•People who own homes on public land may not access their properties.
•Parking areas around Mount Rushmore, The Grand Canyon and a number of other national attractions must be closed to the public.
•Open air monuments in Washington, D.C., need barricades.

Is there any reason to believe this is nothing more than an Obama Administration temper tantrum?

“Government is not Reason. It is not eloquence. Government is force; like fire it is a dangerous servant -- and a fearful master.”
—George Washington, 1797

fshnski Thu Oct 10, 2013 5:54 pm

This post follows up on Noel Sheppard's item this morning on the progress of ObamaCare enrollment in Iowa, wherein we learn that there have been a "Hardy Handful" of five sign-ups thus far, with no identified press coverage outside of the Hawkeye State.

A search on "Iowa insurance" (not in quotes) at the national web site of the Associated Press done at 1:30 p.m. returned nothing recent.

AP has covered the story, but has from all appearances limited its exposure to a five-paragrapher at its Iowa feed. The Iowa story's headline is definitely from the "Let's deceive readers and hope they don't read the story" branch of media brinkmanship (presented in full for future reference, fair use and discussion purposes; bolds are mine):

An insurance carrier under Iowa's new health marketplace says at least five persistent residents have signed up for insurance on the government's website.
CoOportunity Health says the people enrolled in the carrier's insurance plans by Wednesday morning. The Des Moines Register reports the consumers are from Iowa City, Glidden and Clive.

The marketplaces, also known as exchanges, have been troubled by technical glitches and delays since launching on Oct. 1. Iowa's exchange is available under the federal website.

Cliff Gold, CoOportunity Health's chief operating officer, says he's encouraged that some people are getting through the website. He says nine Nebraska residents have also selected policies via the new system.

The policies go into effect on Jan. 1.

AP's fallback argument may be that the story has come and gone at the national web site. I doubt it, but even if so, that excuse would be extraordinarily lame. Obamacare's "glitches" (i.e., possibly fatal flaws) have been nationwide news. Given the situation, there is no justification for the wire service to virtually hide what's going on in Iowa from the rest of the nation.

You can bet the AP's coverage decisions would have been totally different if the Hawkeye State's sign-up number was 50,000 instead of five.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2013/10/10/ap-limits-iowa-obamacare-sign-ups-story-state-feed-headlines-least-five-#ixzz2hMIHgAVc

**WHL** Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:22 pm

I read somewhere how much that website is costing us. (even though it doesn't work very well) It is unbelievable.

News Hawk Fri Oct 11, 2013 3:20 am

WHL wrote:I read somewhere how much that website is costing us. (even though it doesn't work very well) It is unbelievable.

The price was truly unbelievable, but anyone in Government knows that private business would do it better—and for far less money.

"Government: The politicians' gym stays open, but the Washington Mall closes — except for an immigration rally. National parks close, but presidential golf courses stay open. This is one politicized government shutdown.

President Obama has made the public at large feel as much pain as possible from a government shutdown he's betting will ultimately be blamed on Republicans; meanwhile, he and other politicians shield themselves from the pain.

"Grocery stores on Army bases in the U.S. are closed," Bloomberg News reports. "The golf course at Andrews Air Force base is open." As Tim Toth of Americans For Limited Government found: "Since Obama's much-maligned sequester hit Washington, the president has teed off for 30 rounds of golf. That's 540 holes, or 1,000 hours of golf, not including 19th-hole time."

A 56-year-old jogger was fined $100 by park rangers on Sunday for running in Valley Forge National Historical Park in Pennsylvania. But as Obama-friendly ThinkProgress.org reports, politicians are still exercising: "The exclusive gyms available only to members of Congress have remained open throughout the shutdown" — featuring a taxpayer-funded heated pool, basketball and paddleball courts, sauna, steam room and TVs.

Elderly tourists at Yellowstone National Park were threatened with trespassing charges by park rangers just for stopping their bus to photograph bison, the Washington Times reports, then were ordered to stop "recreating" and "return to your hotel and stay there." Of course, their $300 fee hasn't been returned.

The seniors were even turned away from the bathrooms of a private dude ranch within the park under threat of its license being revoked.

Meanwhile, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi thanked President Obama for "enabling us to gather here" and conduct an AFL-CIO and SEIU-sponsored immigration amnesty rally on the "closed due to shutdown" National Mall in Washington. As Breitbart reported, "Scores of Democratic House members ... began arriving shortly after 12:30 p.m. on golf carts."

This is not the first time the federal government has shut down because of conflict between a president and a Congress. But it is the first time its armed agents have been told from on high to make things as painful as possible for ordinary people, while their rulers and their pet causes are exempted.

Who ordered park rangers across America to make life painful for ordinary people, but not for politicians? Who told them to become an American Gestapo?

Add this scandal to ongoing probes of the IRS targeting the Tea Party scandal, the Justice Department spying on journalists scandal, the Benghazi scandal, and the Fast and Furious guns-for-drug-lords scandal.

The real misuse of federal property is being carried out by the executive branch, not ordinary Americans.

Read More At Investor's Business Daily: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/100813-674338-administration-makes-ordinary-people-feel-shutdown-pain.htm#ixzz2hOYrY1Hw
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News Hawk Fri Oct 11, 2013 4:54 am

Whose money was spent to pay these goons to keep Americans from Independence Hall?

(They say, it's us!)

Surprised

News Hawk Fri Oct 11, 2013 8:20 pm

WHL wrote:I read somewhere how much that website is costing us. (even though it doesn't work very well) It is unbelievable.

It's just $93 Million—and counting—but don't worry, it's Other People's Money.

pirat

fshnski Fri Oct 11, 2013 8:30 pm

News Hawk wrote:Whose money was spent to pay these goons to keep Americans from Independence Hall?

(They say, it's us!)

I don't think that is fair. It was obama that made them look like the Gestapo.

Casy Fri Oct 11, 2013 9:08 pm

WHL wrote:I read somewhere how much that website is costing us. (even though it doesn't work very well) It is unbelievable.

I can't believe it...I read it somewhere too. I don't know where but you and I read it somewhere.

I also heard it's costing over a trillion dollars a day to run that website. I heard it somewhere.

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