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GOP Debt Ceiling Ace in the Hole: Obama’s Birthday Bash
WhiteHouseDossier.Com ^ | July 14, 2011 | Keith Koffler

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 ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: bow2theimam; debtceiling; debtlimit; kingofthedeficit; obama; undocumentedimpostor
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To: BradtotheBone

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.


21 posted on 07/14/2011 9:57:45 AM PDT by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: BradtotheBone

Everyone.... send the White House a can of peas and a birthday card to dear leader with a ‘special message’.


22 posted on 07/14/2011 10:00:13 AM PDT by BigFinn
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To: BradtotheBone
HARRYS50THBIRTHDAY
23 posted on 07/14/2011 10:04:59 AM PDT by FrankR ("If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat." - R. Reagan)
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To: BradtotheBone

at the rate at which he is going gray it is gonna be more like a 70th. birthday bash


24 posted on 07/14/2011 10:05:14 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Paladin2
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 disappoint so often I'm not counting on this.
25 posted on 07/14/2011 10:05:42 AM PDT by Pigsley
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To: BigFinn

But I thought the new democRAT buzzword was “shared sacrifice?”


26 posted on 07/14/2011 10:05:55 AM PDT by Josa
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To: rightwingextremist1776

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.


27 posted on 07/14/2011 10:07:34 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Paladin2
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 disappoint so often I'm not counting on this.
28 posted on 07/14/2011 10:09:51 AM PDT by Pigsley
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To: Paladin2

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.


29 posted on 07/14/2011 10:10:26 AM PDT by Pigsley
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To: BradtotheBone

lol. Hope Repub’s “don’t make obama call his bluff”.


30 posted on 07/14/2011 10:18:28 AM PDT by Girlene (What did the fish say when he hit a concrete wall? Dam.)
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To: Biggirl

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.


31 posted on 07/14/2011 10:19:04 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (Placer County: CA's Republican Citadel - 48.39% registration, highest in the state,)
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To: BradtotheBone
for couples contributing $35,800 – a private dinner with the president

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.

32 posted on 07/14/2011 10:22:59 AM PDT by bgill
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To: massgopguy
$35,800 for a bowl of Peas?!

Fresh hand picked peas by Mooch-elle herself from the WH garden.

33 posted on 07/14/2011 10:28:02 AM PDT by bgill
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To: jimfree

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.


34 posted on 07/14/2011 10:38:53 AM PDT by Anima Mundi (share the pain = more meaningful contribution = fair share = from each according to ability = MARX)
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To: Biggirl

This guy has prostituted the position of POTUS.


35 posted on 07/14/2011 10:39:29 AM PDT by JimmyMc
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To: BradtotheBone

Bump


36 posted on 07/14/2011 10:44:13 AM PDT by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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To: Qbert

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!


37 posted on 07/14/2011 10:58:25 AM PDT by Palladin (Sarah Palin in 2012!)
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To: bgill

Maybe the democrats can start a Pea Party.

It’s the perfect name for a bunch of dicks.


38 posted on 07/14/2011 11:05:42 AM PDT by Rad_J
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Obama is the Casey Anthony President.


39 posted on 07/14/2011 11:26:32 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Biggirl

Tell Obama that he can’t golf any until this is solved.


40 posted on 07/14/2011 11:41:24 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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