Petulent

BALTIMORE, Maryland October 7, 2013 - Some thoughts on a rainy Monday:  In Blount County, Tennessee, in the Great Smokey Mountain National Park, the local citizens have just about had it with obama.  Saying it was necessitated by the shutdown, the federal government blocked roadways, including a public highway through the park, making life in this mountain county just about impossible.  Without warning, the feds closed a highway that a heavily used school bus used to pick up take home children at a local elementary school.  The kids were at the school at the time and suddenly the entire student body was stranded.  With the parkway closed, the only available roads cannot be used by a school bus, meaning public transportation in this county has stopped running.  The other roads are described by the residents as "white knuckle" roads, meaning your knuckles are cramped and pale by the time you negotiate these steep and curving routes.  The feds have even declined an offer by the county government to take over operation of the park without charge to the federal government.  And the people here are starting to talk about the right recited in the Constitution to liberty and freedom and the pursuit of happiness.  All of this because it is clear to them and many other Americans that obama wants the federal shut down to make everybody miserable so he can have his way.  Any day now, they expect him to take his baseball and go home.