Crowd of veterans, supporters storm World War II Memorial in Washington

[LiberalElite]

Source: New York Daily News

A growing group pushed through barriers on the National Mall Sunday to protest the ongoing federal government shutdown. Several tea party politicians attended the protest, including Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.



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[pothos]

1. their hypocrisy knows no bounds

a disgusting display from the bottom dwellers of the republican party.
and the old timers there go along with it, many of whom probably get medicare or VA benefits. they take part in this charade instead of speaking truth. they vote for the people that harm them, all because of the black man.

[freshwest]

35. There it is.

[Squinch]

2. Idiots.

[kelliekat44]

3. The GOP wanted the shutdown to last past Monday so that they could use it to pretend that

they had nothing to do with it and make sound bites for blaming the President and the Democrats for the memorial closings. Lots of vets will fall for this BS. "Shut the government down"-Cruz and Palin are unbelievable phonies.

[TwilightGardener]

4. Ted Cruz on hand to protest Ted Cruz's government shutdown.

[Buddaman]

5. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZING!!!!

Excellent point!

[daleo]

8. Perhaps he will slap himself in the face

Or at least give himself a good talking-to.

[cheapdate]

6. "...we will not be timid

in calling out any who would use our military, our vets, as pawns in a political game,” Palin told the crowd.

My head hurts.

[Jamastiene]

12. It is the Republicans who are using our military and vets as pawns.

How can people be so blind that they believe these Republican snake oil salespeople? They are turning our entire government, our entire country, into a laughing stock and a three ring circus at the same time. This is beyond ridiculous.

[cheapdate]

22. These are people who have been raised since before they could talk

to believe without question the "wisdom" of their equally close-minded fathers, their church leaders, and their political leaders. They have no other way to think. They're lost causes and no amount of reason or discussion will change their minds.

[VanillaRhapsody]

26. I have a friend in Canada that watches news in America because we are like watching a season of

Jersey Shore.

I told him we have a "Special kind of crazy" and
he told me..."We have those kinds of crazies here too....we just wouldn't elect them to office"!

[Deep13]

7. OFFS!

Yes, a closed memorial park. THAT's the real outrage!

[The Wielding Truth]

9. All they have to do is open the government. They close it and then cry that it's closed.

We are not fools! Damn them!

[Jamastiene]

10. That is destruction of government property.

Veterans are being used as political pawns. How many of them were actually veterans, I wonder. This entire debacle is shameful.

[Marthe48]

27. Swiftboating national parks?

My husband is a veteran and he is 100% behind the COMMANDER IN CHIEF aka President Obama!

[atreides1]

28. Any veteran that took part in this facade is an idiot...

...and should have been either tasered or pepper sprayed and then carted off to jail to until the courts opened on Tuesday!

And I say this as a Veteran as is my wife...and she agrees with me!!!

[HooptieWagon]

29. Apparently, veteran's groups planned a peaceful march.

The teabaggers piggy-backed on, and were incited to vadalism and violence by Cruz, Palin, et al. Its tough to say how many veteran's were involved, if any. The veteran's group fb page has denounced the actions, and condemned the person's who hijacked the rally for political purposes. By appearances, this was agent provocateurs.

[pitbullgirl1965]

32. No kidding! Their facebook page

is teaming with Jingoistic Reich wing assholes too.
And the mouth breathers with the Confederate flag need their ass beaten down too.
I have no respect for these people. NONE. Why the fuck aren't they getting the beat down like the Occupy movement? Weren't some Congress people arrested last week? Why the isn't Cruz and Palin being arrested?

Oh and of course someone posted a internet meme blaming Obama.

Frankly I think it's worst that 100,000 cattle died in a freak blizzard this week, and if any purse strings needed to be loosened it should have been for that. The poor animals.

[Jamastiene]

33. My aunt was a WAC when Hawaii became a state.

She is appalled by all of this too. That's why I asked the question. I think it is probably like someone noted below, agent provocateurs.

[Jamastiene]

34. I would put "veteran" in quotations marks

when referring to that bunch that pushed through the barricades, because I know of no actual, real veteran who would dream of doing such a thing. Actual veterans respect the country too much to do such things. I also agree with you too, but I don't know how many of those in these "protests" are really veterans. The MSM has a tendency to paint everyone around any kind of memorial as a veteran. You know how MSM is, generalizing and painting everything and everyone they see through their own messed up limited knowledge. I'm thinking the agent provocateur theory is probably correct.

[gopiscrap]

11. two faced fuckers!

[melody]

13. This is the kind of crap they do

They use our methods, but don't understand the ethical context. They're psychopaths.

[zeemike]

14. Why can we never do things like that?

Well I kind of know the answer...because we have no liberal organizations that will organize such things...and when it comes from the Grass Roots they turn their heads and let the cops beat them up, and the "liberal media" call them dirty hippies.

It seems to me the deck is stacked, and our liberal organizations are more interested in raising money for single issues than anything else.

[orpupilofnature57]

15. A sense of Shame is a weight sometimes .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/04/09/03_hard.html

[Justice]

16. I saw 2 confederate flags. What veteran carries a confederate flag?

[TomCADem]

23. Exactly, Leave The Confederate Flag At Home If...

...you want to express your love of United States of America veterans. What's next? A Swastika at a bar mitzvah? And of course Mike Lee, Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin were there in strong support.

[RBInMaine]

25. Pathetic little collection of TeaRacist idiots. What else is new?

[HooptieWagon]

30. All thats missing are the white robes and hats, and burning crosses.

[Bigmack]

17. I always post this on any thread... anywhere....when Repubs try to play the Veteran card...

http://agentorangezone.blogspot.com/2010/09/beware-senator-who-speaks-with-forked.html

http://www.armytimes.com/article/20100920/NEWS/9200305/Agent-Orange-spending-concerns-GOP-lawmaker

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/10/us/agent-orange-study-was-obstructed-panel-says.html

http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,234697,00.html

https://www.disabledveterans.org/2011/04/16/republicans-seek-to-cut-1-3-million-veterans/

http://www.rwjf.org/content/dam/farm/reports/issue_briefs/2013/rwjf405143

"After Reagan's inauguration as President, Hagel was named deputy administrator of the Veterans Administration. In 1982, however, he resigned his post over a disagreement with VA Administrator Robert P. Nimmo, who was intent on cutting funding for VA programs. Nimmo had referred to veterans groups as "greedy", and to Agent Orange as not much worse than a "little teenage acne."

Repubs have only one god... money. "Fuck the veterans" is their real battle cry.

[muntrv]

18. They should have thrown the barricades at cruz and lee.

[caseymoz]

19. The first rally of the US Fascist Party.

We know we're in trouble if they show up at the next one in uniforms. Especially uniforms reminiscent of the Confederacy.

[kydo]

20. Can we finally say it, baggers are brown-shirts - TRAITORS, TERRORIST, & RACIST = tea party

The group that calls themselves the tea party are basically this millennium's version of the Nazi party. The republicans are thugs same as the Nazis.

What happened today was disgusting! That whole group should have been arrested!

[blkmusclmachine]

21. Propaganda WORKS.

They deceive. You believe.

[RBInMaine]

24. The socialism haters fighting for socialism. Just gotta love it. What idiots.

[ReRe]

31. Rather than "Honor"....

... I think they brought DISHONOR to the WWII Memorial. What a disrespectful and disgraceful spectacle! All of them sociopaths, the whole lot of them. Who in heir right mind would have done something like that? Not a speck of good judgement in any of them.

[bemildred]

36. I expect that is about the limit of their military capacity right there too.

Maybe they can shove a confederate flag into the top of it.