And not a single one of them will want to pay taxes. So once they turn on each other we can move on them down from the north and up from the south, I believe it’s call in pincer move.
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I don’t think this is a fight the Democrats want to fight. We have the high ground right now. Going after this makes us look like we want to hurt the public and the parks.
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We’re going to need cable for Trump to hoist his own body weight.
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It’s only fair. NY sent some trash there in Jan 2017.
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This is where @tiowally’s trebuchet/ guillotine hybrid would come in handy.
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They could just drop it off near an overflowing trashcan at Lafayette Square or, more appropriately, President’s Park.
Maybe somebody could put up a sign that reads “You planted the seed, Mr. President. Now watch it grow.”
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The chair of the committee cited in the story is not looking for a fight. This administration hasn’t been held accountable since it’s been in charge. Oversight’s going to happen at last. It’s the House doing its job.
“The Department of Interior is very likely violating appropriations law,” Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN), the new chair of the House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies, told the Post, adding: “We are certainly going to be doing oversight as the acting secretary moves forward with this, and he will be hearing from me directly.”
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What hurts the parks is some half-assed, likely illegal “plan” by somebody who thinks that all the parks need is somebody to collect entrance fees and some crews to collect trash and to muck out and maintain bathrooms.
It’s the same kind of thinking that led the Trumpp admin to open up the parks, so they wouldn’t “hurt the public.”
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I agree but the optics look shitty.
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The optics of what exactly look shitty to whom exactly? Not to these lawmakers who are different than the lawless people in the admin
“The Department of Interior is very likely violating appropriations law,” Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.), who is incoming chairwoman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on Interior, environment and related agencies, said in a phone interview Sunday. “I want to see our parks open, but I want to see our entire government open the right way, following the law.”
House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) said Sunday that his panel also would scrutinize the justification for the move, noting that the president expects taxpayers “to either pay more to keep the toilets clean out of their own pockets or pay millions of dollars for his ridiculous wall.”
@ottnott From WaPo story.
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Propped up against the fence surrounding the WH or tossed onto the moat between Penn Ave. and the front door if their aim is good enough.
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“Parks with limited staff have urgent needs that cannot be addressed…"
The situation is so bad that Larry Craig’s been standing in line for three days to get into the Yellowstone gents.
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…standing in line…with a wide stance…
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" Come on guys ! … We’re starting to look bad ! "
and for the donnie … image is everything ----
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This is all obviously the fault of Nancy Pelosi and the Gang of Angry Impeaching Democrats. If they would just surrender, Dear Lieder wouldn’t have to hurt any one any more. He really doesn’t want to hurt anyone, but they made him do it.
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Love the Broadway Boogie Woogie avatar too.
He’d probably enjoy Tharp’s Log at Sequoia National Park, if you know what I mean…
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This.
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The other hidden agenda item is to have Amon Bundy type groups run some of the national parks during shut downs.
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I don’t disagree with your premise, but I think it really depends on how it’s positioned in the media. If the MSM picks up on the message of the woman quoted above, the CEO of the National Parks Conservation Association, who says this move will simply drain money that was supposed to be spent on addressing the parks’ massive maintenance backlog, then I don’t think it hurts us. But I agree that’s a big “if.”