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 ...
I think the repubs should publish their final offer, release it to the press, then leave a copy in front of obama chair, with a can of generic peas for a paper weight.
Everyone.... send the White House a can of peas and a birthday card to dear leader with a ‘special message’.
at the rate at which he is going gray it is gonna be more like a 70th. birthday bash
But I thought the new democRAT buzzword was “shared sacrifice?”
I am sure that because this is advertised as a fund raiser the Democrat party will pay the bill for the plane ride and security at the function. Bwaahahahahahahahha LMAO
This DICK has been traveling on our plane for months fundraising at our expense, It’s time it was stopped.
That is right....Boehner, etc., should just keep saying No, No, No right up until Blunderboy has his shindig. You would think the repubs would understand this, but they disapoint so often I’m not counting on this.
lol. Hope Repub’s “don’t make obama call his bluff”.
Not to worry. The genius GOP leaders will fall all over themselves to give Obama a pass on htis. Perhaps Boehner will attend and give The One a round of golf as a birthday present.
Now, now, I'm sure those thousands will be donated to the federal government to help with granny's SS check and not into Whiny Butt's pocket.
Fresh hand picked peas by Mooch-elle herself from the WH garden.
We should use the wrapper off of frozen peas and send him BIRTHDAY GREETINGS...maybe make it a post card so it is seen as it travels to him.
This guy has prostituted the position of POTUS.
Bump
If this week’s shenanigans are any indication, Barry the Great may not make it to 50. That evil temper of his is going to give him a stroke!
Maybe the democrats can start a Pea Party.
It’s the perfect name for a bunch of dicks.
Obama is the Casey Anthony President.
Tell Obama that he can’t golf any until this is solved.
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