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Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee say there’s a bright side to the government shutdown, listing the top ten reasons:10. Approximately 15,000 EPA employees are furloughed, making it less likely fake CIA agents at EPA will be ripping off the taxpayer
9. EPA doesn’t have the manpower to raid Alaska mines with armed guards
8. Fewer bureaucrats at the EPA makes it less likely that they’ll make up science on new regulations
7. Former Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar is worried about oil production in the Gulf of Mexico
6. World War II veterans have stormed the Normandy beaches again. (Sadly, they had to, in order to gain access to their own memorial)
5. EPA doesn’t have the manpower to unilaterally expand its jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act
4. U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) still finds time on the Senate floor to make inaccurate claims about green jobs. (This is a positive, right . . . NOT!)
3. Far-left environmentalists prove themselves hypocrites again: They criticize continuing oil and gas production on federal lands during the shutdown but issue no call to halt wind turbines
2. President Obama has a temporary excuse for his stonewalling on FOIA and other transparency demands of the Administration
1. Richard Windsor has been furloughed-for good!
These are just the points, more detail here: The Top Ten Reasons The Government Shutdown Isn’t All Bad And, for those (like me) who may not understand all of the insider references, there’s an explanation here: Senate GOP staffers post shutdown top 10