Boehner: his gym "essential" - food inspections, not so much

[billvon 3,078]

Boehner has shut down Headstart, NASA and food safety inspections in the US until he gets his way. Fortunately he's kept the most important government services open - like his own private gym.

Unfortunately it's getting smelly in the Senate's gym due to reduced laundry services. That's the REAL tragedy in this shutdown.

From ThinkProgress:
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Exclusive Gyms For Members Of Congress Deemed ‘Essential,’ Remain Open During Shutdown
BY JUDD LEGUM
OCTOBER 8, 2013 AT 9:45 AM

Head Start programs have been shuttered, small businesses can’t get loans and hundreds of thousands of federal government employees are furloughed. But the exclusive gyms available only to members of Congress have remained open throughout the shutdown.

A House aide confirmed to ThinkProgress that the House member’s gym is open. The House gym features a swimming pool, basketball courts, paddleball courts, a sauna, a steam room and flat screen TVs. While towel service is unavailable, taxpayers remain on the hook for cleaning and maintenance, which has been performed daily throughout the shutdown. There are also costs associated with the power required to heat the pools and keep the lights on.

According to the aide, the decision to keep the gym open — even while other critical government services were shelved — came directly from Speaker Boehner’s office. Meanwhile, the staff gym available to Congressional staff has been closed.

It appears that the members gym in the Senate remains open on similar terms. Yesterday, Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) complained to a reporter from the Omaha World-Herald that the members gym was getting “rank.”
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[rushmc 23]

and the amber alert website was shut down and M Obamas keep moving website was not


I love the Boehnere shut them down comment

Come Bill
Desperation does not become you

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[airdvr 210]

Seems Camp David is on the essential list.

Please don't dent the planet.

Destinations by Roxanne

[rushmc 23]

airdvr

Seems Camp David is on the essential list.

And they closed the gocery store on the base Obama golfs at, but not the golf course

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[regulator 0]

Why is it so difficult for you to understand the dems are every bit as culpable as republicans?

[champu 1]

regulator

Why is it so difficult for you to understand the dems are every bit as culpable as republicans?

I would say that republicans are acutely responsible in the case of the current shut down, but politicians in general are chronically responsible for negotiating matters of authorization and policy during the appropriations, continuing resolution, and/or debt service processes.

Congress has ADHD.

[OHCHUTE 0]

champu

***Why is it so difficult for you to understand the dems are every bit as culpable as republicans?

I would say that republicans are acutely responsible in the case of the current shut down, but politicians in general are chronically responsible for negotiating matters of authorization and policy during the appropriations, continuing resolution, and/or debt service processes.

Congress has ADHD.

Not really when you figure most all shorted the market last week and are reaping lots of money from insider trading. Now they'll bank on market going up once they fund the deficit. The public is played like suckers.

[billvon 3,078]

>Why is it so difficult for you to understand the dems are every bit as culpable as republicans?

In general - yes. In this case - no. The republicans planned this for months and are now executing their plan. They not only are responsible for it, they are patting themselves on the back for it. Michele Bachmann on the shutdown: "This is about the happiest I've seen members in a long time because we've seen we’re starting to win this dialogue on a national level . . .We're very excited. It's exactly what we wanted, and we got it."

[jdfreefly 1]

I have found one and only one reference to who makes the decision on what got shut down:

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53. Who decides which employees work and which go home? Each agency is responsible for coming up with its own contingency plan, based on guidance from the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management. Those plans are then sent to the White House for review.

This would imply to me, in a pure "the buck stops here" sense, the white house gets the final say in what got shut down, not Boehner. If you have a decent source for who has the final say on this stuff, I would love to see it.

Methane Freefly - got stink?