Last night on The Kelly File, Rep Duncan Hunter (R-Calif)--- He has a fallen hero in his district who died during the shutdown. I haven't seen this point made anywhere else in the press:
VERBATIM transcript (is there video?)
" On the 28th of last month, pre-shutdown, we passed the Pay Our Military Act. It passed through the House, Senate, and the Pres signed it on the 30th of last month. THAT does cover THIS [death gratuity]....We actually saw this coming. That's why we passed that bill. This is an on-purpose, in-your-face middle-finger, as you said so eloquently to the military families. This is nothing other than that.
"Because they were told specifically by us, 'You can pay this.' This is why we are passing this act unanimously through the House and the Senate, signed by the President. They are being careless. And this is reminiscent of them sending back bodies in cargo planes so they could be fork-lifted instead of with an honor guard in the way we ought to treat our men and women.
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KELLY: The Penegon Comptroller came out and said, "Well we've had a number of people die recently and we will be able to pay them but not until the lapse of these appropriations problems." They are going to get their money just as soon as YOU, basically, get your act in order. He is putting it back on Congress, and the DOD is putting back on Congress.
They came out and said, "Congress was warned prior to the shutdown that these benefits would be stopped even despite your efforts to legislatively head this off, your legislative efforts only protect the service men and women and not the families"---and that you blew it because that was a LOOPHOLE and you should have seen this coming.
DUNCAN: Let me take off my Congress hat and put on my Marine hat; That statement sickens me---because here is the reason why. We explicitly asked if THIS was going to be covered when we passed that pays for this, and they said YES! This is the DOD trying to cover their own tail on this. They made the wrong decision, and they need to fix it.....
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REPOST: Now I hear Obama has fixed this, saying, "He didn't know...He just wasn't aware.
The PR isn't going as Obama had planned.
The "new" lows Obama is setting are only exceeded by his "old" lows. Examples of his moral depravity and obsession with power are mounting.
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"The conduct of the National Park Service over the last week might be the biggest scandal of the Obama administration. This is an expansive claim, of course. Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the IRS, the NSA, the HHS mandate—this is an administration that has not lacked for appalling abuses of power. And we still have three years to go."
The Park Police
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In one of the most despicable and immoral acts of any president in the history of the United States, President Obama, the Commander in Chief, is playing politics over the dead bodies of American soldiers killed in action during the government shutdown. These soldiers were killed following his orders.
Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Law Center, commented, “I cannot conceive of any other president in our history doing what Obama is doing in this situation. As Commander in Chief, he signed the orders sending these young men into harm’s way. They died following his orders. Now he is denying their families the military’s “death gratuity” normally given within 3 days of the death, which covers funeral expenses and travel to Dover Air Force Base to receive the flag draped casket that holds their fallen hero. President Obama is callously adding to the unimaginable grief and the heavy burden these surviving loved ones carrying just to score some political points.”
Shame on You, President Obama
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None of Obama's sadistic [definition: enjoyment that someone gets from being violent or cruel or from causing pain] acts are mandated by the government shutdown. They never happened before in any other shutdown.
These are choice edicts issued directly from the Spite House.
#SpiteHouse: President Stompy Foot sparks new name for White House
America, Your Vacation Wonderland! (Mark Steyn)
On his radio show yesterday, our pal Michael Graham spoke to one of the tourists held under house arrest (or hotel arrest) by the National Park Service geyser stasi at Yellowstone Park. Here’s part of the interview:
There was a large group of Asians there. Not many spoke English… They said, ‘Are we under arrest?’ I mean, they were fearful. I mean, it looked like we were inside a prison. There were two large guards doing a walk up and down in front of the doors, so people felt like they were in prison. And the Australians said that would never happen in their country. Never never never.
Oh, get over yourself. Consider yourself lucky Obama didn’t just drone your tour bus...