Also, the Air Force-Navy football game this weekend is in jeopardy for the optics. And Colonial Williamsburg, which operates entirely on private funds, is closed because screw you:
The National Park Service has ordered the closure of a Virginia park that sits on federal land, even though the government provides no resources for its maintenance or operation.And then there's the WWII heroes for contrast.
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Because, just like the Lincoln Memorial, you can't look at granite without government assistance.
The Lincoln Memorial has a park ranger on duty for 13 hours a day. The U.S. Park Police maintain a 24-hour patrol of the area that includes the memorial.
Good to know that WWII heroes pushing past barricades for TV cameras to dramatize the "slimdown" (copyright 2013 Frank Luntz) has nothing to do with optics.
It's probably not about photo ops, though. As a voting demographic, World War II veterans are too young to be supporting today's GOP.
http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/02/monuments-and-memorials-remained-open-during-previous-shutdown/
Understanding the hissyfit in just three sentences:
“We’re not going to be disrespected,” conservative Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., added. “We have to get something out of this. And I don’t know what that even is.”
Whining about "Shutdown Theater" was more fun before an unpaid policeman took a bullet today. Just a ways over from the granite monuments where paid demagogues create TV footage by shouting at unpaid workers.
But the parking lot at Mount Vernon is closed, so tyranny yet lives.
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