Posted on 03/24/2014 4:29:39 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
The White House has been tight-lipped about the cost of First Lady Michelle Obama's trip to China, but based on the choice for lodging, it could be considerable. Mrs. Obama and her entourage, which numbers seventy according to the Washington Times (including her two daughters and her mother), booked the Westin Chaoyang Hotel close to the U.S. embassy in Beijing for their first stop. According to USA Today, the presidential suite at the hotel is listed as $8,400 per night.
But when Vice President Joe Biden visited China in December 2013, he and his team stayed at the St. Regis Hotel after the contracting officer responsible for booking rooms determined that the Westin Chaoyang hotel "price was prohibitive when compared with St. Regis." This is according to the justification and approval documents just released on a government contracting website:
The following other hotels were reviewed but were not adequate because of the following:
Grand Hyatt Beijingcannot meet security requirements for travel into and out of the building. Westin Chaoyangprice was prohibitive when compared with St. Regisotherwise met requirements.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
That old fish eyed fool of a mother should never have been allowed to go. She just puts the icing on the embarrasement cake.
That's pretty damn funny!
Queen Moochie exits her private Boeing 747 along with her mother
"Barking Moonbat Robinson", and daughters Malaria and Sasquatch
Wholly chit!!
Good point!
A father doing his job doesn’t let his daughters (esp. highly visible daughters) wear skirts that short.
I paid enough for her to stay five days, not counting grazing fees and the rest of room service.
A Bigfoot in China doesn’t eat cows, they only eat the best.
Pandas.
My firewall strips photobucket.
It’s a photo of a couple of James Brown’s fans urging him on to a postmortem spin.
Mrs. Robinson really is his spitting image, but can she do a dance split?
It migt be interesting to see what happens when the girls have to live on “only” what the Obamas have confiscated from the treasury beyond 2016. I’m guessing their sense of entitlement has to be really significant by now.
70 people went along? Good night!
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Soul Plane
Why is James Brown in so many of the pics with Mooch and the girls? Hes dead after all.
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HA!..Fabulous!
I just don’t understand why they aren’t staying at the embassy. After all it’s security is already in place. I know the answer I just needed to ask the question.
well then PETA’s gonna have a head explosion.
Maybe they can tease her away with some cream puffs.
We knew she had the largest personnel staff of any First Lady in this nation’s history prior to this term. The payroll was over a million a few years back. She has gophers out the a—.
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