Is this — again — not the most insane thing you’ve heard or read?  Just when you think that the Obama Administration cannot get more nakedly craven, cowardly and puerile — they do.  They have topped themselves today with their newest spoiled-child tantrum.  More sphincter-dribble from the US Spite House.

From the SiouxFallsBusinessJournal.com:

Barring visitors from view an unexpected effect of shutdown

Blocking access to trails and programs at South Dakota’s most popular attraction was one thing, but state officials didn’t expect Congress’ budget stalemate to shut down a view of Mount Rushmore.

The National Park Service placed cones along highway viewing areas outside Mount Rushmore this week, barring visitors from pulling over and taking pictures of the famed monument.

Now here is what BZ would, of course, do: drive over some cones, pull out his camera, a tripod, a video cam, a table, a chair, sit down and have lunch at my leisure.  When finished, I would also leisurely take any number of photographs to my satisfaction.  Then, just prior to leaving, I would merely “displace” said blocking cones to an unknown point down an adjacent steep hill.  Mission accomplished.

The cones first went up Oct. 1, said Dusty Johnson, Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s chief of staff. The state asked that they be taken down, and federal officials did so with some of them. The state was told the cones were a safety precaution to help channel cars into viewing areas rather than to bar their entrance.“I think reasonable people can disagree about that,” Johnson said.

They certainly can.  I believe, as a Political Beastie and beholden to the federal government nipple, Governor Johnson is being quite tactically correct and extremely kind.  There was one purpose, and one purpose only to the blocking off of vehicle pullouts: to punish Americans, to inconvenience them, to anger them, to frustrate them.

I’ll wager that more of YOUR tax dollars were spent to block and shut down various parks and attractions than required to simply operate them on a normal basis.

While I’m at it, I simply canNOT pass up a graphic I discovered here.

BZ

P.S.
This is Kabuki Theater.  This is Theater of the Absurd.

And: why is it ONLY the pro-America venues that are finding themselves closed?