Interior Dept: That shutdown cost our national parks $414 million, you guys

Interior Dept: That shutdown cost our national parks $414 million, you guys Interior Dept: That shutdown cost our national parks $414 million, you guys « Hot Air Interior Dept: That shutdown cost our national parks $414 million, you guys posted at 9:01... More

Interior Dept: That shutdown cost our national parks $414 million, you guys Interior Dept: That shutdown cost our national parks $414 million, you guys « Hot Air Interior Dept: That shutdown cost our national parks $414 million, you guys posted at 9:01 pm on March 4, 2014 by Erika Johnsen As you might remember, the Obama administration did just about everything it could think of to make the government shutdown last fall as visible, inconvenient, and outrageous as was humanly possible, including all kinds of Washington-Monument strategizing with our nation's national parks both large and small. They gated off the open-air World War II memorial and scenic overlooks on the George Washington Parkway; they forced the innkeepers of a privately-run inn on the Blue Ridge Parkway to close up shop during peak leaf-viewing season; they tried to nudge states into shutting down even state-run properties for the duration of the shutdown. So, uhm... let that be a lesson to you? Via the Washington Less