They can't allow White House tours for school groups because of the cost of Secret Service, but they can leave Secret service people in Hawaii to watch after the First Lady.
They do not have White House tours because conservatives are enforcing the sequester. As a non-essential government function, those tours as well as Blue Angels are suspended
You wanted austerity and you got it
Hey RW This is another example of where both sides blame the other.
In a way, they are both right, and it still doesn't solve the problem.
I notice you tend to point out hypocrisy on the right, while I tend to focus on
problems with the liberals/Democrats on the left. [note: this is because I am trying to work within the Democrat party to address and correct problems caused by political and legal abuse by Democrats, by investing my own labor and money into solutions "as a Democrat" to encourage more Democrats to fix problems caused by our own party members and leaders instead of denying them and blaming others]
Can I propose you and I join together in making a resolution this year to being open to equal criticisms and corrections from both the left and right?
So if you post this criticism of the right, then acknowledge the left is equally deserving of criticism and correction.
And when I criticize the left (as a peer among fellow Democrats trying to CORRECT the problems and redirect resources to repair the damages caused by political abuse and waste from infighting) then I will also acknowledge that the right has the same problems.
For example, on the health care reform, if Democrats are criticized for increased costs and reducing accessing or quality of health care, then equally blame Republicans for excess war spending and corrupt contracts that cost taxpayers billions on war and destruction.
So why not petition both parties to seek reimbursement of corrupt war spending on contested contracts, and use that money to pay for Veterans health care first? Reform that system, create jobs for enough hospitals, service providers, and Vets to cover all Vets first, and then use that same system to build toward universal coverage for all other citizens.
Just an example.
But what do you think of this idea? Not to criticize one side only, but to also find the equivalent criticism of the other side doing the same or similar. so we join forces to police both equally so it solves twice the problems, on both sides, instead of competing to discredit one and ignore the other. When both sides do that, neither problem gets solved.
wouldn't that do more to end the political deadlocking so there is less govt waste?
he looks like a good man. 
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