Bite Me thanks Park Ranger for standing against vets
Chief Tango sends us a link to a brief Washington Examiner article about Joe Bite Me who thanked a Park Ranger at the World War II Memorial for trying to stop veterans from entering the Memorial;
On Thursday, video surfaced online of Neugebauer, a Texas Republican, angrily lecturing the ranger for setting up barricades to the memorial.
“I’m proud of you,” Biden said, according to his office’s Twitter account, revealing that the vice president had called the ranger to thank her for her service.
Actually, I don’t blame the Park Ranger for doing her job. I think Neugebauer’s anger was misplaced. I’m sure that she wouldn’t have blocked veterans without directions and resources from the administration. I’ve watched the hippies do the same thing that Neugebauer did – take their anger out on the people who just happened to be there, but they’re just doing their job.
Biden, on the other hand, was just sticking his finger in veterans’ collective eye – he’s one of the people responsible for putting that ranger in a position to draw the ire of veterans and congress. You can be sure that Bite Me would never put himself in the position of that ranger. Unless Jill was there with her shotgun to protect him.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden
Anyone surprised?
John, I think this is the first time I’ve disagreed with you in a year. I do blame the ranger for trying to do her job in this instance. I can’t imagine a scenario where I would be ok with any effort to keep those heroes out of their memorial. I understand the logic and reason behind what you’re saying, and I would not have been screaming at the ranger; however, I would have politely asked her to step aside without forcing a scene.
I wonder what Biden’s son (you know–the veteran one) was thinking about Daddy’s spouting off his cocksucker and keeping it open just long enough to change feet.
Joe Biteme spits on whoever he pleases, after all, he knows he has the media covering for him.
“Actually, I don’t blame the Park Ranger for doing her job”
I do.
I’m waiting for them to pin a medal on the cops that shot the unarmed mentally ill woman who made the mistake of hitting barricades and trying to get away.
Am I the only one who thinks it’s strange that there seems to be plenty of funds available to buy, set-up, and guard barricades? Shouldn’t these rangers be on furlough?
Those terrible Republicans must have gotten a funding exeption through after all.
s/b ‘exception’
Note to SS, I am NOT calling for violence against elected officials, FYI.
That being said, if Biden was a “regular Joe” citizen, I wonder how often he’d get his teeth knocked down his throat for some of the shit he’s said over the years, or at the very least laughed out of the room.
There are speedbumps in our local Shopko parking lot with more relevence than Biden has. What he says or doesn’t say means absolutely nothing.
One of the hardest things to do is find yourself in a position where you know that what you’re supposed to do, what is part of your job description, is suddenly wrong. And so there you are, usually with very little time to decide, trying to make a choice between your job and your heart. I’ve been there, and didn’t like it worth a damn. I didn’t pay with my job for my decision. The ranger could have. I doubt the ranger liked what she was told to do any better than the vets did.
A decision like that is compounded by who you will hurt if your take a stand and lose your job. If it’s just you that will be hurt, that’s one thing. If you have a spouse and/or kids at home counting on you, that’s a whole other subject.
My point is, don’t bronc-stomp the ranger without knowing her motivation.
@PN I thought about all of that before I posted. I also have a family to support, but if I put myself in her shoes I still let them in. There are many ways to support a family that don’t involve standing in the way of the men that won that job for you. I’m not “bronc-stomping” her. After all, she made the right decision.
From my post yesterday about golf courses remaining open while commissaries are closed a number of commenters pointed out that golf courses are paid for solely from greens fees and not Federally funded. A camp ground in Arizona was shut down and campers forcibly removed and it too is funded solely by camping fees. The Ford Theatre too. The Claude Moore Colonial farm in Virginia was shut down and employees forcibly removed right before a fundraiser. Park Rangers seem to be enforcing shut downs in places they have no authority to do so…
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/03/Obama-Forcing-Shut-Down-of-Parks-the-Feds-Don-t-Even-Fund
If anything I find it ridiculous that she is even a subject. Neugebaur lecturing her for being a pawn in a situation he helped create is nearly as ridiculous as Biden’s kudos… I can’t keep a straight face. Who am I kidding? There is nothing more ridiculous than Joe Biden.
Different reaction here: Biden’s comments are typical of thugs everywhere who grin at you while making certain that you get the message of their expectations and the consequences of failing to meet them.
PintoNag: so, you’re defending the ranger here because “they were only following orders”? Dunno if I buy that argument. That’s one damn slippery slope.
I don’t think it’s a straw-man fallacy to raise the point some of the most horrific atrocities in history have been perpetrated my people who were “just doing their job.” That excuse didn’t cut it at Nuremberg, and ain’t it ironic that the soldiers who were responsible for sending those Nazis to trial are now confronted with yet more people “just doing their job.” At the end of a long day just doing your job, did you make the world a better place? Did the great majority of your fellow citizens who you interacted with today appreciate your efforts? Do you feel good about what you’ve done? If “just doing your job,” makes you feel like a scumbag…maybe just maybe it’s time to do a little soul-searching and figure out why it’s your job to be an asshole.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/03/congressman-park-ranger-memorial_n_4037524.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
Um, does he even know what he voted for or is he just in it for the photo op?
@15 No, Hondo, what I meant to say was that a decent person in a civil service job can find themselves faced with a situation where they have to decide very quickly if they want to keep their job OR do the decent thing. The decent thing, in this situation, was to let the vets into the memorial. The JOB said to put up and maintain the barracades. And for that ranger, that was the rock and the hard place.
@14 OWB
What you said.
No federal employee has ever been fired for doing the right thing. Very few are fired even for doing the wrong thing. The only reason for firing is Reporting wrongdoing by ones superiors. You can do nothing, do wrong, or do good, but you can not blow the whistle on systemic wrongdoing.
PintoNag,
I agree with you in principle but when the ranger says she is not ashamed for not doing the decent thing the “rock and a hard place” analogy disappears as it seems she doesn’t see either the rock or the hard place.
It may be a stretch, but it appears that she not only is doing her assigned job (which is understanable) but has no moral qualms about keeping the vets out.
Just to be clear here, she did let them in right? She tried and failed to keep them out, or pulled the old “wait, stop, don’t, oh well.”
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: fuck Joe Biden. May that asshole be sodomized in hell.
The greater problem with all of them is that they forgot for whom they work. They do not work for a particular group of people that they hope will vote for them, in the case of politicians, and every bureaucrat on the payroll should never forget that it is we the people who pay their salaries.
There really is only one standard for behavior – “What do the people I serve expect of me.” Another bureaucrat, a political appointee, or a politician is not who they serve.
@21 You are correct. I didn’t address that angle, mainly to prevent confusion. We all know, and have worked with, the person who only knows how to obey the rule book, with no ability (either moral or mental) to tell right from wrong otherwise. Those are the ones who make good little Nazis.
@24 Agreed.
@24 I sent an e-mail to the White House saying something close to that today. Unfortunately, http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact I don’t think anyone will be reading it.
Thank you Jack, #16, you said exactly what I wanted to say. I’m tired of the old excuse, “I was just doing my job”.
To Hell with that Park Ranger. Considering how many of these government slugs don’t do their jobs, I’m shocked to find one that does, and of course it ends up being the wrong thing. Time for something to get these clowns’ attention. A little bit of property destruction (a la the Boston Tea Party) or a little tar and feathers will make these little Nazis-in-waiting rethink their career choices. Remember, our Founding Fathers would have been hanged as traitors for the celebrated acts that defined our Revolution in 1775/1776. It is time for Washington DC to learn the same lesson that King George III did.
*climbs down from Soapbox*