At meeting with GOP leaders, obama admits shutdown shielded obamamess disaster

BALTIMORE, Maryland October 18, 2013 - obama thanks GOP for keeping public displeasure away from Whitehouse:  Just a few days before the moderate GOP cabal capitulated and ended the federal shutdown without any concessions by obama on obamamess (aka obamacare, aka Affordable Care Act), obama candidly admitted to the dozen or so legislators in the GOP contingent at a Whitehouse meeting that the shutdown was keeping almost all of the public's attention on the stubborn GOP and virtually none on the disasterous start to the obamamess registration process that started this week.  In fact, obama audaciously thanked the legislators for the shield they were providing.  And while he was correct in his assessment, the shutdown is now over while obamamess is just starting.  There is no end in sight for the terrible quagmire that the registration process has fallen into, and still in the wings is the public outcry to the humongous fees many will have to pay to the government for their participation is the money-eating monster.  After that will be new and unwelcome physicians, death panels and the hundreds of other nightmares that come with the ill-conceived marxist-leaning plan.  National Parks head admits whitehouse had knowledge of plans to fence-in war memorial and shut other national parks:  The head of the National Park system admitted this week that he met with the president's White House operatives - and possibly the President himself - as the shutdown started, and that he left the meeting with instructions to fence in the open air World War II Memorial on the National Mall, and to close dozens of other National Parks even though such a move would bring untold hardship on hundreds of innocent citizens.  Some people whose home is located in a national park were ordered out of their homes for the duration of the shutdown.  Others discovered that their young children were marooned at a school with no way home because the road their school bus traveled to take them to school was closed during a school day.  obama planned to put maximum pressure on locations that served veterans, because he felt that veterans were a core constituency of the GOP and their hardship would cause the GOP to capitualate sooner rather than later.  It was one plan that backfired, because the vets were one group that blamed obama.