{"id":5940,"date":"2013-10-15T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5940"},"modified":"2013-10-15T11:19:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T16:19:00","slug":"manufactured-pain-in-the-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5940","title":{"rendered":"Manufactured Pain in the Government Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past weekend, veterans and their supporters protested in Washington, DC<\/a>. They took down the barricades surrounding the open-air World War II memorial, and dumped some of them half a mile away outside the White House. It seems like spending money, during an alleged government shutdown, to close something that doesn\u2019t actually require opening was a bridge too far for an administration bent on making sure you feel the pain, even if the pain is manufactured.<\/p>\n

Speaking at this protest were politicians of all stripes, standing with and supporting our vets. Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin spoke to the crowd, and\u2026 Hmm, just a minute. Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin\u2026 Aren\u2019t they both Republicans? Why yes; yes they are. What should have been a bipartisan show of support, was partisan only because every available Democrat either supported this manufactured pain<\/i>, or dare not cross his party leaders with a show of independence or support of the troops<\/i>. <\/p>\n

Is the question of this manufactured pain — shutting down things that have never been shut down during a government shutdown \u2013 a partisan issue? It shouldn\u2019t be. And I do understand supporting the President who happens to be of your party. Generally, you don\u2019t want to be the one giving the other side an easy target. I get that. But aren\u2019t there some things beyond the pale? For some, it appears not.<\/p>\n

Oh, and on Monday, the barricades were put back up<\/a>. Now there\u2019s<\/i> an essential service for ya. Seems the World War II Memorial is more secure than our borders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past weekend, veterans and their supporters protested in Washington, DC. They took down the barricades surrounding the open-air World War II memorial, and dumped some of them half a mile away outside the White House. It seems like spending money, during an alleged government shutdown, to close something that doesn\u2019t actually require opening was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,18,26,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-doug","category-government","category-politics","category-republicans"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}