https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2013/10/08/report-armed-rangers-forced-senior-citizen-tourists-to-stay-inside-their-hotel-during-yellowstone-visit-because-of-shutdown/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 14:41:38 -0400<![CDATA[Via Breitbart and Ace, who&#8217;s demanding that the National Park Service pay some sort of price for serving as &#8220;the shock troops of the punitive bureaucracy&#8221; through all of this. I&#8217;ve written similar things over the past week, and right now I can&#8217;t understand why either of us would bother. They&#8217;re not going to pay any price. We all know it. Issa will haul the director and his deputies before the Oversight Committee and they&#8217;ll mouth the requisite perfunctory regret and warnings not to judge the whole department by the behavior of a few &#8220;overzealous&#8221; rangers. Maybe someone will receive a few weeks or months of &#8220;administrative leave,&#8221; i.e. paid vacation, a la Lois Lerner, but then he&#8217;ll be quietly reinstated when no one&#8217;s paying attention anymore. News outlets and bloggers will get a few days of content out of it when the hearings are being held and then that&#8217;ll be that. Nothing will change. No lessons will be learned. No scalps will be taken. That&#8217;s how it goes now. If anything, the White House will be more reluctant to fire someone over this than they were over the IRS scandal because ranger-enforced shutdown theater helps them spread the liberal message that closing the government is an unconscionable hardship.]]>Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:41:39 -0400<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2013/10/08/report-armed-rangers-forced-senior-citizen-tourists-to-stay-inside-their-hotel-during-yellowstone-visit-because-of-shutdown-n210224