Obama's pain campaign: Closing the open-air monuments

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...-weigh-probe-monument-closures-amid-slimdown/​

House Republicans are investigating the decision to close off the World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington after veterans groups were initially denied access to the memorial in what has become a defining symbol of the government slimdown's impact.

Senior Republicans on the House Natural Resources Committee sent a letter Wednesday to National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis asking him to retain all documents related to the "arbitrary" closures of open-air monuments and parks in the nation's capital.

The committee is considering hearings to determine whether the Obama administration ordered the "outrageous" closures in an attempt to "make the current lapse in appropriations as conspicuous and painful to the public as possible," according to the letter from chairman Doc Hastings, R-Wash., and subcommittee chairman Rob Bishop, R-Utah.

It doesn't appear these closings need to make sense, they just need to be visible. Like the park on federal land that has no federal personnel or funding, but was forced to close anyway.

The Great Pretender is all about image, creating perceptions based on lies. That's why he hid the details of the ACA for four years. That's why he won't negotiate to end the shutdown/slimdown/whatever-you-want-to-call-it-down, and then lies about such negotiation being "unprecedented." That's why the Republicans -- love 'em or hate 'em -- have to win this fight. If they don't, we will have a dictator (as though we don't already have one).