UNBELIEVABLE: Obama Says Americans Aren’t Allowed To Look At Mt. Rushmore During Government Shutdown

UNBELIEVABLE: Obama Says Americans Aren’t Allowed To Look At Mt. Rushmore During Government Shutdown

People have been joking that Obama would cover up Mt. Rushmore, but they didn’t really believe it. Well, when you’re dealing with a President whose contempt for the American people knows no bounds, you never really know how far his temper tantrums will go.

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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 Buffalo News reported that a tour group of dozens of people from western New York was unable to take pictures of the monument because highway viewing areas were coned off.

“It’s all closed up,” the newspaper quoted North Collins, N.Y., resident Hilde Werneth as saying. “They won’t even let you stop and take a picture. You can only drive by.”

Jim Hagen, secretary of the South Dakota Department of Tourism, said the situation is hurting people from out-of-state and international visitors who are in South Dakota to visit the monument.

“They won’t even let you pull off on the side of the road,” Hagen said. “I just don’t know what they’re trying to accomplish.”

…But Republicans said the administration is unnecessarily making the shutdown more painful than needed – including coning off viewing areas near Mount Rushmore.

“It disgusts me that taxpayer resources were used on this act of stupidity,” Rep. Kristi Noem said. “This is federal government arrogance at its worst.”

Sen. John Thune said he had seen photos of the coned-off viewing areas, and he said it’s “outrageous” if federal officials are barring people from pulling over and taking pictures from the highway.

“It seems to me, on a lot of levels – and we saw this out here with the World War II Memorial – the administration wants to make this as painful as possible,” Thune said, referring to barricades around the memorial.

Despicable, just despicable.

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