NO.... a minority of a minority party is responsible. I take no claim for it. My guy won.

1 Million Vet March should give the credit of the Republican Shutdown and politization of their event where it belongs: on Republicans. They should stop the false equivalence that "ALL are responsible for this mess" because that's demonstrably false.

I'm so sick and tired of some American people picking up the Republican meme that "ALL in Congress are to blame" for this 100% Republican Shutdown especially now it's come to light, that one day before the U.S. Gov't was shut down, Republicans had rigged the democratic process purely partisan lines, and passed H.R. 368 that "would stop a majority vote" in the House that could have stopped this Gov't Shutdown.

No, American Vets, this is a purely, 100% Republican fiasco. They should get full credit for it. Democrats have nothing to do with it.

Maybe their hearts are in the right place, but good goddamn, you idiots, it's REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS WHO SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT!

The majority probably were in favor of shut down if they still got their dibs.

But their heads were up their asses!

They allowed themselves to get hijacked by Palin and Cruz...which shows that they had no command structure and that they never really had control of the situation!

And now they want to be forgiven for screwing the pooch...they let it happen, now they can suffer for their stupidity!!!

These people do not understand the list of things that our taxes support under the direction of the government.

Close the government and freeze the funding and things must stop.

They do not understand this extremely simple concept.

Maybe some eyes will be opened, and the question asked: maybe they've been using us all along!

cruz.. and of course palin is hanging on to his coattails.

Glad the Vets are speaking out.. this needs to be seen!

thanks Emit

The blatant hypocrisy of these Teabaggers is astounding.

I'm happy our Vets are speaking out about this, but they, too, are laying blame on both parties, and that's just blatantly wrong. Only ONE political party is to blame for this nationwide fiasco, and that's the Republican Party.

How proud are those Tea party jerks, now...that they have taken food out of the mouth of disabled Veterans? Or..worse, pushed them from housing on to the Street.

People needing health care or prescriptions aren't getting them. EPA, FDA, FAA and the IRS have laid off thousands. Please spare us. And stop with the "it's all of them" nonsense and bullshit.

Memorials are important, of course. But there are real life and death issues that I believe are infinitely more critical than this.

Also, I know their intentions are honorable. Really, I get that. But I reject the false equivalency. It's not just a matter of opinion who is causing the shutdown. It's a matter of fact.

In 1987, World War II veteran Roger Durbin approached Representative Marcy Kaptur, a Democrat from Ohio, to ask if a World War II memorial could be constructed. Kaptur introduced the World War II Memorial Act to the House of Representatives as HR 3742 on December 10. The resolution authorized the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) to establish a World War II memorial in "Washington, D.C., or its environs", but the bill was not voted on before the end of the session, so it was not passed. Two more times, in 1989 and 1991, Rep. Kaptur introduced similar legislation, but these bills suffered the same fate as the first, and did not become law.


Oh and you got to love this

On May 12, the Senate also approved the amended bill, and the World War II Memorial Act was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on May 25 of that year, becoming Public Law 103-32.

See the other side didn't care enough to even give you a monument. The same ones that don't give a rats ass now if you can visit it, unless it makes for good film at 11

Do not be their tools.

It's a very good addition to this thread!

and coporate media is running with it.

Republicans have ZERO original tactics.

the perfect christian. I'm tired of this BS, the dark ages are gone, learn to live like civilized people.........

get too excited about a memorial being shut down for awhile. So what? There are people going hungry. Memorials are fine if you really need that kind of thing, but not a top priority as far as I'm concerned. They started this shit and they get to own it.

We are too concerned in this country about symbols such as the memorials and even the US Flag itself.

The more important things are 1. People 2. The ideals those symbols were meant to represent.

It is the same thing with the Pledge of Allegiance. Pukes will get their knickers in a knot about talk of taking the "Under God" part out

But they trample all over "the liberty and justice for all part." By saying those words yet not meaning them they in a sense become blasphemers to this country and show themselves as the true hypocrites they are.

Why were Veterans prevented from visiting their memorials and monuments dedicated in their honor? We don't know.