The Expendables

By Mustang Bobby

There seems to be no limit to the shamelessness of the Republicans. Via Dave Wiegel at Slate:

The heartbreaking predicament of the Honor Flights emerged yesterday as a flash point for anti-shutdown anger. Quickly, inevitably, the story of elderly World War II veterans taking trips to see their memorial in D.C. became a political cause for Republicans. (I spent the morning at the memorial, with a story coming later today.) On Tuesday, Park Police put up very little resistence when a Mississippi-heavy crew of Honor Flight vets showed up and Mississippi Rep. Steven Palazzo moved a flimsy fence to let them in. Later in the day, conservatives glommed on to reports that the Park Police—i.e., the Obama administration—would handcuff future veteran-tourists.

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At the memorial, Park Police put up no resistence to the protesters, allowing congressmen and Honor Flight organizers to move a fence and then telling reporters that the whole affair was a First Amendment exercise. That didn’t stop a series of congressmen from hectoring Park Police and demanding answers, as if they were not, themselves, capable of ending the shutdown.

The spectacle of clowns like Michele Bachmann saying that it was the evil Obama administration that shut down the government is enough to make you want to throw things, and using World War II veterans as hostages is something that should land her and her followers in a cell at The Hague.

(Cross-posted at Bark Bark Woof Woof.)