Republicans Berate National Parks Director For Shutdown As Deal Is Announced...

[ProSense]

Republicans Berate National Parks Director For Shutdown As Deal Is Announced (VIDEO)

Just as Senate leaders were announcing Wednesday morning a deal to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling, House Republicans on the other side of the Capitol held a previously scheduled hearing berating the National Parks Service director, demanding to know why some open-air parks and memorials were closed during the shutdown.

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) asked why the parks service allowed 2011 Occupy Wall Street protesters a one hundred day encampment in downtown Washington, D.C., but turned away visitors on the National Mall in October.

"On the very first day of the closure, I implemented a closure order for all 401 national parks in compliance with the Antideficiency Act, and immediately, immediately, that day, also included as a part of that order that First Amendment activities would be permitted on the National Mall," said National Parks Service director Jonathan B. Jarvis.

"Do you consider first amendment activity to walk to a monument that you helped build, or is it only smoking pot at McPherson Square?" asked Gowdy.

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Morons!

Tea party ringleader admits the GOP shut down the government for nothing
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023861541

[Coyotl]

1. Parksghazi, verbo novo, the act of denying that the shit in your diaper is yours.

[ProSense]

5. Ewww!

[Sunlei]

2. Rs are like dogs with a 'redirrected aggression' mental defect.

[nykym]

3. Hey Trey

Why aren't you doing your job!
Just a reminder it isn't shutting down the Government over money you already spent!
YOU should be ashamed of yourself and your party.

[kentauros]

4. I'd never make a good bureaucrat.

I'd be too much like Robert Redford in Brubaker, constantly pissing off the bureaucrats with my snide and sarcastic replies to their abject stupidity!