Speaking of Washington Monument Syndrome, some memorable political theater is underway at the WWII Veterans Memorial: the completely open-air plaza has now been blocked off by our Executive Branch, in a gesture of sheer petulance, just as a planeload of elderly veterans are arriving for a ceremonial visit. (“Non-essential” workers were actually exempted from their temporary furlough in order to close off the area.)
Great optics, you geniuses.
A term you might be hearing more of soon: ‘Barackades’.
Update: the guards have given way. The veterans are in.
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Barackades: A veto or voting block spearheaded by a petulant prick.
I’ve already seen “Barackades” and “Barry-cades.” Other permutations to follow, I’m sure.
A majority of voters elected not an American President but the commander of the Leftist Democrat Party. Which begs this question:
The federal government shutdown is the next best thing to impeachment.
May it last till the next Presidential election. Amen.
Stop calling the non-essential government employees “non-essential” as it hurts their self-esteem!
Everybody is important.
Stop calling illegal aliens “illegal aliens”.
They prefer to be called “as yet undocumented wannabe Merkins trying to make an honest buck to support the money-laundering in their country of origin”.
http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2013/10/silver-lining-government-shutdown.html
Thanks to a tireless and single-minded federal worker, you can peruse all of DC’s happy hour options right here in one spreadsheet.
http://warontherocks.com/2013/10/shutdown-survival-kit-all-dc-happy-hours/