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Meet Sylvia Burwell, the woman who ordered the government shutdown
NBC News ^ | 10/02/13 | Elizabeth Chuck

Posted on 10/06/2013 6:04:56 AM PDT by Libloather

A single person shut down the entire U.S. government for the first time in 17 years.

Not a congressman, but an unelected woman named Sylvia Burwell who, as the relatively new director of the Office of Management and Budget, sent the email that initiated the process that has closed national parks, visitors’ centers and even the “panda-cam” at the National Zoo.

"Agencies should now execute plans for an orderly shutdown due to the absence of appropriations," Burwell wrote in a memo to heads of executive departments and agencies Monday night as it became clear lawmakers had failed to agree on a budget deal.

**SNIP**

"She became an extremely skilled negotiator," John Podesta told Bloomberg.

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 113th; barrycades; bho44; burnbag; burwell; government; govtshutdown; obamapunishes; omb; origins; shutdown; sylviaburwell; vincefoster; woman
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To: Libloather

Another Marxist, true believer automaton.


21 posted on 10/06/2013 6:30:19 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Libloather

Yet another radical leftist female...I’m losing count.


22 posted on 10/06/2013 6:31:09 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: KeyLargo

When did John Elway let his hair grow out like that?


23 posted on 10/06/2013 6:32:37 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Libloather

unelected woman named Sylvia Burwell...otherwise known as “Patsy”


24 posted on 10/06/2013 6:32:54 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Libloather

I’m surprised this came from NBC news.


25 posted on 10/06/2013 6:33:32 AM PDT by gattaca ("Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Libloather

I knew it was a woman.


26 posted on 10/06/2013 6:33:53 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Damn ObamaCare, full speed ahead!)
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To: Libloather

Fascinating how a government document has a political harangue embedded into it. The OMB implores Congress to pass a budget?

Truly amazing. The tail attempts to wag the dog.


27 posted on 10/06/2013 6:34:19 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: basil
She can’t help the face she was given

True that.

She can, however, change how it appears to others, and to show up at the office looking like some homeless person drug into work unwillingly, tells everyone a lot about her contempt for others.

28 posted on 10/06/2013 6:36:40 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Damn ObamaCare, full speed ahead!)
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To: Libloather

I love the panda cam. I miss the panda cam. Leave the pandas alone!!!!


29 posted on 10/06/2013 6:38:27 AM PDT by Gefn (More Cowbell)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Can you imagine the offspring of her and John Kerry?

You would have a plow pony that you were glad you were looking at it’s butt all day.


30 posted on 10/06/2013 6:43:30 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: Libloather
The only reason this article was written was to give Obama cover when all this blows up in his face....

"I never ordered the government shutdown"

If this goes sideways in a big way...she can commiserate with Lois Lerner

31 posted on 10/06/2013 6:43:39 AM PDT by Popman (Liberal wars are about killing people for humanitarian reasons...)
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To: Libloather
Reading the background on this women...She a good example why Washington needs an enema.


32 posted on 10/06/2013 6:44:43 AM PDT by darkwing104 (DonÂ’t take my word for it, these are my opinions...Do your own Homework)
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To: Libloather
Why do they do what they do?

Obama Administration Ancestors.

(red, blue and yellow "protest banners")

33 posted on 10/06/2013 6:49:22 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: central_va

keyboard spew alert


34 posted on 10/06/2013 6:50:29 AM PDT by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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To: Libloather

35 posted on 10/06/2013 6:53:41 AM PDT by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

36 posted on 10/06/2013 6:55:02 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: darkwing104
Yes, good point.

Void the bowels of Washington

37 posted on 10/06/2013 6:56:25 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

“Agencies should now execute plans for an orderly shutdown due to the absence of appropriations,”......

Such a “plan” was not concieved in a few days and executed as quickly is the current gubmint shutdown. Odumbo and his ilk have been planning this for some time and are cheering it on to last as long as possible.


38 posted on 10/06/2013 6:59:02 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: All
Headline? Obama never gave orders to Sylvia Burwell director of the Office of Management and Budget, says White House.

"I never texted with that woman, Sylvia Burwell. Now can I get back to my game?"

39 posted on 10/06/2013 7:02:38 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Progov
This babe (married with two children) has followed the entire leftist career path - politically connected to get a Rhodes Scholarship, heading up “charities” and foundations and tied into very left wing politicians - Dukakis, Clinton and Obama.

From her (polished) wiki:

She began her career while still in college, serving as an intern for West Virginia Congressman Nick Rahall, as governor's aide to Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, and working on the Dukakis/Bentsen and the Clinton/Gore campaigns. Ms. Mathews served as Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 1998, and was Chief of Staff to Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin from 1995 to 1997. She also served as Staff Director for the National Economic Council from 1993 to 1995. Prior to that, she was an Associate at McKinsey & Company from 1990 through 1992. She is a Member of the University of Washington Medicine Board, the Pacific Council on International Policy, the Aspen Strategy Group and the Nike Foundation Advisory Group.

She has been in that position since April 2013. Prior to that, she was president of the Walmart Foundation, having assumed that post in January 2012,[1] and was previously the president of the Global Development Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. While at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, her program focused on combating world poverty through agricultural development, financial services for the poor, and global libraries. She was Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director of the Foundation prior to its reorganization in 2006. She came to the Foundation in 2001, after serving as Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget in Washington, D.C., from 1998.

40 posted on 10/06/2013 7:15:18 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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