Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks are being barricaded today, and all public access closed, thanks in part to Wyoming’s lone congressional representative, Cynthia Lummis.
Lummis is part of an extreme faction of the Republican Party seeking to hold the federal government hostage over implementation of the 2009 health care law. She voted repeatedly this weekend and last night to send a budget bill to the Senate that was dead on arrival.
Without funding, all federal agencies, including the National Park Service, were forced to close.
On her website, Lummis said she did so to protect Americans from “the onslaught of Obamacare.”Onslaught of Obamacare?
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