Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

White House cancels tours over sequester cuts, as lawmakers call decision political (ya think?)
FoxNews.com ^ | March 5, 2013 | Fox News

Posted on 03/05/2013 2:48:20 PM PST by luvie

Sorry, Washington-bound spring-breakers. Your White House tours have been canceled.

The Obama administration announced Tuesday that it will cancel all tours starting this weekend, due to sequester cuts. The move prompted swift condemnation from Republican lawmakers, who described the decision as the latest attempt to make the sequester seem worse than it is.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/05/white-house-cancels-tours-citing-sequester/#ixzz2MhycOBzj

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; politcal; sequesterpunishes; wethepeople; whitehouse; whtours
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-32 next last
We, the people need to protest in front of the White House this latest insult! Wish I lived closer!
1 posted on 03/05/2013 2:48:32 PM PST by luvie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: LUV W
50 million for new spiffy TSA uniforms but not one cent for White House tours. That's our boy.
2 posted on 03/05/2013 2:51:10 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: hinckley buzzard

Now if the vacations will just be cancelled, I’ll feel a teensy bit better! (Not really...this is an outrage!)


3 posted on 03/05/2013 2:53:03 PM PST by luvie (All my heroes wear camos!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: LUV W
These chicken-sh!ts missed their calling.

They should have been in theatre.

4 posted on 03/05/2013 2:55:20 PM PST by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LUV W
The White House tour is the most over-rated tour in DC. They put a Park Ranger on one end of the line to give you a quick spiel and another at the other end to push the crowd through like a mass of fecal matter through a large intestine. You hardly hear or see anything. Buy the book and look at the pictures if you want to see something.

Better yet, contact your congress critter or senator for a private tour of U.S. Congress in the Capitol Building. The groups are modest sized, the staffs are fairly knowledgeable, you get to ride the private subway from the SOBs or COBs and, best of all, you actually get to see and learn something.

5 posted on 03/05/2013 2:56:36 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LUV W

This is well known in government circles as the Washington Monument ploy; at the local level it’s called the firehouse ploy (whenever hishonor wants to frighten the rubes into handing over more of their money, he/she has the council start holding hearings to deliberate which firehouse/EMS stations will need to be closed). In the schools, they threaten to shut down athletics. Nothing new here.


6 posted on 03/05/2013 2:57:53 PM PST by Spartan79 (I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LUV W

Gee...and all these years, I thought it was OUR house, not that grifter and his beards house!


7 posted on 03/05/2013 2:58:49 PM PST by MagUSNRET
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LUV W

Did Obama’s cancel the White House public tours because of Hugo Chavez’s death...

or

That Chavez died on the anniversary of Stalin’s death

decisions decisions


8 posted on 03/05/2013 3:05:32 PM PST by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LUV W

So.....Where are the ‘lawmakers telling the Admin that since the house is closed, their state will cease sending tax money?

Afterall, why fund a closed ‘business’?


9 posted on 03/05/2013 3:06:11 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LUV W

What jerks.


10 posted on 03/05/2013 3:10:12 PM PST by Girlene
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LUV W

This is so petulant, just like a selfish child who doesn’t get his own way. Please God, deliver us from this ridiculously foolish imposter who has NO business being president.


11 posted on 03/05/2013 3:17:29 PM PST by Old Grumpy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Old Grumpy

It’s a good thing.


12 posted on 03/05/2013 3:20:55 PM PST by arkfreepdom
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: LUV W

This is getting so obvious even the low information voters are going to start “getting it.”


13 posted on 03/05/2013 3:26:41 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (...and to the Republic for which it STOOD...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ThePatriotsFlag

They could run the “tours” by firing as little as 10% of the Beard’s staff!!

Someone needs to send a memo — It’s the People’s House ... not a political backdrop.


14 posted on 03/05/2013 3:38:19 PM PST by LibsRJerks
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: LUV W

Camp David to be declared surplus property unless utilized for 60 days a year, I hope.


15 posted on 03/05/2013 3:38:56 PM PST by Scram1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ThePatriotsFlag
This is getting so obvious even the low information voters are going to start “getting it.”

Don't count on it.

16 posted on 03/05/2013 3:41:23 PM PST by Antoninus II
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: LUV W
White House cancels tours over sequester cuts...

Good one! Excellent cover story, while the white hut mourns Chavez.

17 posted on 03/05/2013 3:42:34 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Spartan79

Well said! “Nothing new here”. The outrage of this ploy is just beginning to set in my mind. This couple, who have hijacked our Presidency, have the nerve to cancel tours of OUR White House? I would take away the keys to Air Force 1, and 2. No more travel on our dime. Stay in Washington and work on creating a budget for the first time in 5 years, why not?
And, while you’re at it, stop talking to us as if we are your uninformed voting bloc. Your tone is disgusting Chicago “street talk”, not appropriate for one who is in a leadership position. By the way, START LEADING!


18 posted on 03/05/2013 3:49:36 PM PST by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Nachum

That’s right, 1953. Joseph Stalin made me a Republican a very long time ago. I hated communism then and I hate it today.


19 posted on 03/05/2013 3:50:06 PM PST by Conservativegreatgrandma (The perfect is the enemy of the good..............Voltaire)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: elkfersupper
They should have been in theatre.

Yes! The theatre of the absurd!

20 posted on 03/05/2013 4:04:41 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-32 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson