So he leaves tomorrow to reach chicago by august 3rd!
Posted on 07/14/2011 9:42:53 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
Oh boy, this is going to look bad.
The Republicans may not realize it, but they have an extra point of leverage in the debt ceiling talks: Barack Obama’s birthday.
It’s on Aug. 4. The president is turning 50. He’s decided to have a quiet celebration with family and a few close friends.
NOT.
Instead, the president is planning an extravagant fundraising bash Aug. 3 at the Aragon ballroom in Chicago, including a birthday concert teaming with celebrities and – for couples contributing $35,800 – a private dinner with the president. All this just one day after the government is scheduled to run out of cash!
Undoubtably, the sight of so much money getting thrown around and dissolute stars crooning to Obama will make a stirring contrast with a federal government bankruptcy featuring unpaid government workers, seniors and soldiers wondering how they’ll afford the groceries, shuttered national parks, and angry investors trying to cash out their Treasury Bills.
If the government defaults, you can be sure the birthday bacchanal will do much more to harm Obama’s reelection prospects than help them. Maybe House GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who has been refusing to back down while needling Obama to the extent that the president stomped out of a White House meeting yesterday, already knows this.
The excitement kicks off at 4 pm with a concert that may feature singer Jennifer Hudson and other A-List stars, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
(Excerpt) Read more at whitehousedossier.com ...
This will give ammo to the GOPers for sure!
All the more reason to hold off ANY action until Aug 5.
Instead, American citizens must recognize that, for "the People," the question is between freedom and slavery to government.
"It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the wuestion in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle [usurpation of power], and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much . . . to forget it." - James Madison
". . . we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. - Thomas Jefferson
". . . nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers presss upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The reveue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole society." - John Adams
Apparently only the unwashed have to eat their peas.
Pray for America
Gee, but the President’s own words, these people should be contributing more of their fair share to the Government... and I don’t think a re-election campaign counts.
That’s it - I like it - a $2 debt extension to August 5.
—they don’t have the brains, testicles or backbone to use an opportunity such as this——
Ohaha figured by now, the campaign dollars would be rolling in like they did in 2008---and all he had to do was get names to list on the FEC reports.
That ain't happening---so its onward to Plan B---what to do if the campaign money is NOT flowing in.
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REFERENCE Obama "The Fund-Raiser" is a guy who really plans ahead.
Obama stashed away zillions for his campaign (looted from the US Treasury). All he needs is "contributor names and CV" to cover the FEC requirements.
Remember that when Ohaha got in, his first moves were:
(1) taking over the census and placing it under the jurisdiction of the WH (has all the names and CV he needs for the FEC),
(2) taking control of the US Treasury, and,
(3) COS Rahm's brother taking charge of Medicare/Aid billions and O/Care billions.
Now we know why.
Who pays for this?
That’s great. Will they serve peas at the fundraising banquet?
This is unbelievable. Maybe Cantor should tell o that if he doesn’t cut the budget he’ll miss his birthday fundraiser.
So he leaves tomorrow to reach chicago by august 3rd!
This is all that would be on news if a Republican did it, AND the Rats would hire a violent mob to “protest” outside.
Pathetic POS media and their messiah.
All about politics.
You, the American people, are so fraked. =.=
Cantor should wear a helmet with a helmet cam on it into the next meeting and have a live web connection going.
$35,800 for a bowl of Peas?!
No doubt many “useful idiots” will attend, and end up doubling their money by the taxpayers.
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