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Obama celebrates spending binge with cocktails and wagyu steak (over $100 a pound elitist chow)
michelle malkin ^ | 1/28/2009 | michelle malkin

Posted on 01/29/2009 5:29:04 PM PST by milwguy

Can the Obama administration be anymore tone deaf? After pushing his $1.1 trillion Generational Theft Act of 2009 through the House last night, the White House apparently decided to throw itself a swank cocktail party. According to ABC’s Jake Tapper, the menu included alcoholic beverages (vodka martinis are an Obama favorite, reportedly) and wagyu steak.

Yeah, “wagyu steak.” $100 per serving delicacy. I had to look it up, too.

On the heels of the most expensive inaugural celebration in American history and passage of a trillion-dollar spending binge that will saddle future generations with unprecedented debt, perhaps President Obama might consider cutting back on such indulgences.

Or is the White House exempt from “shared sacrifice,” Mr. President?

“New era of responsibility?”

Not so much.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho2009; bho44; bhoalcohol; bhostimulus; democrat; democrats; economy; malkin; obama; porkulus; socialism; stimulus; waronpork
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To: DemforBush

Great minds think alike......

Just what is a Waygu steak?

The wife and I had a couple of nice strip steaks I picked up on sale today on the way home from work, $3.99 a pound.

I put it on the charcoal grill and celebrated the fact that the House Republicans and the rest of us on Free Republic just ain’t buyin’ this smokescreen.


41 posted on 01/29/2009 6:15:12 PM PST by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free....)
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To: AliVeritas

Stupid post.

an insult to Georgians. Be careful next time.


42 posted on 01/29/2009 6:16:13 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (FREE BLAGO !!! LET HIM SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER !!!)
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To: milwguy

“Some animals are more equal than other animals.”


43 posted on 01/29/2009 6:17:39 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: milwguy

This is absolutely insane.


44 posted on 01/29/2009 6:18:23 PM PST by Gator113 ("Noli nothis permittere te terere.")
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Since I have to pay for my heating fuel. I dropped the thermostate to 68, but my Amish Fireplace is toked up to the highest setting.


45 posted on 01/29/2009 6:18:41 PM PST by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: All

Our county is at 15 percent unemployment. I’m overjoyed and inspired that someone in this country can still party hearty. /sarc

At least we have a new nickname for Barack “Let Them Eat Steak” Obama.


46 posted on 01/29/2009 6:19:26 PM PST by Cloverfarm
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To: milwguy

Is this the party?
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/obama-holds-reception-for-congressional-leaders/

“What’s on the menu? The invitees were told to expect drinks – and, perhaps, a snack or two.”


47 posted on 01/29/2009 6:22:50 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: milwguy

How many poor people in the United States would that money feed?

His priorities are wrong.

He talks the talk, but he doesn’t walk the walk.


48 posted on 01/29/2009 6:23:45 PM PST by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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To: AliVeritas

My tagline is vindicated.


49 posted on 01/29/2009 6:24:42 PM PST by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
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To: richace

http://gaffenation.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/ocommunism-obama-proposes-marshall-law-on-thermostats-and-suvs/

Barry in his own words on YOUTUBE talking about how WE can’t keep our homes at 72 degrees and eat what we want. Obviously those rules do not apply to him.


50 posted on 01/29/2009 6:24:54 PM PST by milwguy (........)
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To: milwguy

His carbon footprint is bigger than Al Gore’s.


51 posted on 01/29/2009 6:26:18 PM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
And people joked about LBJ turning off WH lights to keep the electric bill down.

Especially the bathroom lights - he didn't want to see Goldwater run.

52 posted on 01/29/2009 6:28:07 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: milwguy

The article says $100 per serving. Unless we are eating at the Big Texan in Amarillo, a serving is about 6 to 8 ounces of steak, so it is more like $200 per pound.


53 posted on 01/29/2009 6:31:26 PM PST by sportutegrl
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To: milwguy
Unbelievable.............. Nothing to good gor the Messiah..............
54 posted on 01/29/2009 6:31:32 PM PST by sweetiepiezer (I have a Pal in Sarah)
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To: GrouchoTex
Wagyu is a breed of cattle bred to yield incredibly tender and well-marbled beef. Japanese Kobe is the most commonly known type, though they raise it in the U.S. now too.

Supposedly, the Kobe beef cattle get fed a diet of beer, receive warm oil massages (great work if you can get it, eh?) and generally avoid anything that would make their meat muscles toughen.

Here's a pic of a Wagyu steak:

That's some mighty fine beef The 0ne is eatin' on our dime.

55 posted on 01/29/2009 6:35:31 PM PST by DemforBush (Somebody wake me when sanity has returned to the nation.)
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To: GrouchoTex
The wife and I had a couple of nice strip steaks I picked up on sale today on the way home from work, $3.99 a pound.

I like steak that has some fight left in it, and I think it tastes better. I'd rather eat a tub of butter than a fillet Mignon.

56 posted on 01/29/2009 6:36:18 PM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: milwguy

This country voted for change and they got it.


57 posted on 01/29/2009 6:37:49 PM PST by Conservativegreatgrandma (When the righteous rule, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule the people mourn. Proverbs 29;2)
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To: milwguy

Castro is superwealthy. Most dictator thugs are. Corruption and all that


58 posted on 01/29/2009 6:39:46 PM PST by GeronL (Had the flu. Not well yet.)
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To: milwguy

Yup, wagyu beef, 80 degrees in office, car w/less than 10mpg, yet he criticizes others? Living large all right~so much for spreading it around lol


59 posted on 01/29/2009 6:40:41 PM PST by Freedom56v2
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To: milwguy

Wagyu Ribeye Steaks - 4 steaks - 16 oz. ea.
Item # W328 $315.95


60 posted on 01/29/2009 6:43:15 PM PST by shiva
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