House Republicans seek probe of D.C. monument closures

[alp227]

Source: politico

House Republicans have already started probing the decision by the Obama administration to close off Washington’s World War II monument in an effort to turn the videos of veterans in wheelchairs pushing past barriers to visit the site into a defining image of the government shutdown.

House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa is “in the early stages of examining it,” spokesman Frederick Hill told POLITICO. “I don’t think we’ve sent any letters or requests at this point, but they’re possible.”

Senior House Natural Resources Committee Republicans sent their own letter Wednesday to National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis to ask him to “take steps as necessary to keep and not destroy documents related to the decision this week to restrict public access” to open-air memorials and monuments in the Washington area, including those honoring veterans of multiple wars, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King.

The committee is “considering an oversight hearing in the near future,” wrote Natural Resources Chairman Doc Hastings and Public Lands and Environmental Regulation Subcommittee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah).

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/house-republicans-dc-monument-closures-government-shutdown-97758.html

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Darrell Issa behind this? OF COOOOOOOOOURSE!

Meanwhile, WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

[savalez]

1. The GOP sure likes probing stuff. n/t

[KansDem]

3. Yeah!

[SunSeeker]

4. OMG. I'm downloading that one!

[Scootaloo]

6. Oh my word...

Completly NOT what I expected to see clicking this thread

[savalez]

21. yikes!

Nice one.

[Happyhippychick]

2. So glad they are spending time on worthwhile pursuits while children are dying

Wtg

[marble falls]

5. They don't need a probe, ahem .... YOU QUIT PAYING THE BILLS!

[Cryptoad]

7. Dhuh,,,,,,,,

You GOP asshole extortionist shut the gubermint down and their is no salary to pay to have somebody to protect it

To Protect it from vandals ,,,,that why!

GEEEEZ!

[TygrBright]

8. Speechless... just.... speechless...

Un-be-fucking-lievable.

A bottomless well of stupid.

An endless fountain of delusional entitlement.

Just....


awe-inspiring.

In a creepy way.

amazedly,
Bright

[SunSeeker]

9. Will he look into how GOP disobeyed security and crashed the gates for a photo op?

And what part of GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN does the GOP not understand? You don't get to pick and choose your pet items for exemption from the shutdown, just like I don't get to pick and choose where my taxes go.

[Historic NY]

10. Issa is on the job...."monument gate"..!!

[jwirr]

11. What did they expect to happen when THEY closed down the government? No need to probe anything

- THEY closed the government down and those parks are part of the government.

[Roland99]

12. The have a new term now...

"barry-cades"

Right wingnut blogosphere is on fire now with word that the White House OMB ordered the memorials to be closed.

[Eugene]

13. FFS This is low even for Darrell Issa.

What a grandstanding asshole!

[onehandle]

14. Please place a mirror in front of this parakeet. nt

[DhhD]

15. House has monies for miscellaneous spending. They chose to ignore federal needs and take up

Women's private contraception issues again. They cannot see the forest for the trees; a bunch of fanatic lunatics.

[Plucketeer]

16. Snakes are envious of Issa

They wish they could slither as low as he can. Yeah, let's worry about photo ops while hundreds of thousands of folks are on furlough!

This really reminds me of the old joke about the ass hole claiming to be boss of ones body. Where the AH proceeds to pass nothing until the rest of the body concedes that he IS the boss, just to get some relief.

[Corgigal]

17. Are they STILL drunk?

or do they not understand what the federal government actually does?

I'm actually hoping for drunk.

[uppityperson]

18. I read this, shook my head, went away and came back again. What? I mean...WHAT? They closed the

gvt. WTF did they THINK would happen? They'd get to chose and pick what stayed open? What? WTF?

Shaking my head and going away again muttering wtf

[DeadLetterOffice]

19. ^^^Yup, this n/t

[BlueToTheBone]

20. Good Job, Darrell, good job.

What a way to waste our money. $12.5 million is that a day or an hour they're wasting with their little temper tantrum?

[Jamastiene]

22. That's like purposely killing someone,

then opening up a probe to find out what happened.

Republicans, you are idiots! Duh! You shut the government down. What did you think would happen?

I guess the government ain't so big and bad after all when it comes to stuff they want.