[LostInBayport]

Friends are reporting that all over the SF Bay Area. Places where police or rangers have NEVER been seen before now have them standing at the barricades preventing entrance to areas that are wild and completely unmaintained.

This suggests that the administration has realized that most Americans have shrugged at the government slimdown (and hopefully many Americans are finally learning that just maybe that Tea Party is right and the government is too big after all). They are resorting to manufacturing hardships to foment anger over the slimdown, and could very easily overplay it by trying to shut down the OCEAN. Even low information voters are going to say 'Wha?' to that. If they are this desperate they know the refusal to negotiate with the Republicans is on borrowed time.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I work in Silicon Valley and have learned I’m usually outnumbered by wacko libs at work by 50:1. Yet this week I learned two guys I work with believe in small government and are deriding the closure of facilities as lunacy. Not sure which way they voted the past two elections, but their current beliefs sure surprised me. There may be hope yet.