Obama had to come up with ways to force the public to notice the shutdown. Closing open air veterans’ memorials, public parks and the like so his friends in the lapdog media could get photo ops of dejected tourists.
obama was so desperate he had fences around monuments to stop veterans seeing memorials, and the media still blamed it on the republicans. Then the ignorant , uninformed masses called liberals just sat there, went on facebook , and repeated the media talking points.
Of course if you asked them a question they were clueless.