In this case I'm not blaming underlings, I'm just saying that there is no verifiable evidence that the White House ordered park and monument closings. The head

In this case I'm not blaming underlings, I'm just saying that there is no verifiable evidence that the White House ordered park and monument closings. The head of the National Parks Service could have made a decision to keep things open, or he could have made a decision to close things. The Secretary of the Interior could have done the same. Do you have any evidence that the president sent out an order to close the parks and monuments? In that case, yes he is responsible. Otherwise you are just speculating, just like everyone else. If you want to make the argument that ultimately the president is responsible for everything that happens on his watch, that's a different argument. The parent post was saying that Obama sent an order to close the parks. We've been at sequestration level funding for months. Some agencies moved things around to minimize disruption, some didn't. Do you think the president sent orders down to individual agencies on how to mitigate the effects of sequestration, but didn't send that guidance to others? It's possible, but it is more likely that the different agencies figured things out for themselves and some made out better than others.