[reaganaut1]

There's money for parties and entertainment at the White House but not to provide lunch for guests summoned for official business? More evidence Obama is a jackass.

[domenad]

I personally found it rather amusing - there REALLY is no free lunch in Washington.

[rod1]

“We’ve done a lot more entertaining than previous administrations have,” says the White House aide. “The whispering here is that we’re over budget and where we can, we’re trying to save money.”

Unbelievable. They ask people to come on business; charge them for it; but spend recklessly on their and their friends own entertainment.

I wonder how the masses either out of work or facing higher taxes will feel about that?

[autumnraine]

“Recently, high-profile visitors to the White House, including senior corporate executives, have found themselves paying for their own meals when sitting down with President Barack Obama, something unheard of in previous White Houses, according to former aides to President George W. Bush and President Bill Clinton. “

Unheard anywhere that I know of. How humiliating.

[dirtboy]

"We've done a lot more entertaining than previous administrations have," says the White House aide. "The whispering here is that we're over budget and where we can, we're trying to save money."

Well, serving $100/lb wagyu beef to visiting Congresscritters every Wednesday will tend to burn up the ol' budget.

Ya think they could have gone witt $20/lb choice filet, but when you are the Obamessiah, only the best will do - even as large swaths of your subjects are unemployed and eating macs and cheese.

[libertarian27]

$20 bucks for a Wagyu beef dinner? I’m there/sarc

[MamaTexan]

Too Poor to Pay (for meals of White House guests, because of all the entertaining)

Gee. I wonder how many lunches that $350 GRAND spend for the NYC photo-op flyover would have bought.

[nikos1121]

Give me an f...ing break. Now I’ve heard of everything.

This is total BS.

The White House is processing their Diner’s and American Express Cards?

Then I’d like to know who is NOT having to pay for their meals.

Who paid for the beer fest the other night. I saw that on TV. What a collossal blunder that was, and to see those guys in white shirts rolled up was so contrived it was embarrassing.

I mean heres Gates and Crowley dressed and Biden and Obama in their white shirts rolled up.

Can’t wait to see what we’ll hear about this week.

[April Lexington]

The Federal dictatorship must be abolished before it destroys our freedom... Power to the STATES, not the Feds...

[silverleaf]

White House stewards expect tips?

What next, tip jars at the IRS offices?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

He gets UAW and other unions to vote for him. Then he steals a large chunk of GM from legitimate bondholders, paying for it with our tax money, and gives it to the UAW as payback for their votes. Next he puts in place a program to use our tax money to pay people to junk perfectly good cars so the UAW can build replacement cars.

And he's worried about a "conflict of interest" because of a $30 lunch at the WH?? Obama, thy very name is HYPOCRISY and CONFLICT.

[MrDem]

How galling! Throw BILLIONS to your political cronies and yet pretend to have the virtue of Caesar’s wife when it comes to a $20 meal.

[Condor51]

Already out of money? .. dang.
There goes the Wednesday Night Conga Line dance parties.

[These two poseurs have went through OUR money like the Katrina 'victims' leeches did with that $2,000 FEMA credit card.]

"I be goin' to da White House"

"But I gotta bring my own beer!"

[Ticonderoga34]

The bigger issue is that Obama can’t stick to a budget. He just spends until the money runs out. Its what him and Bill Ayers did at the Annenburg Foundation and its what he is doing with the Federal budget.

[ladyjane]

Barbarians at the gates, vulgarians in the White House.

[monocle]

"We've done a lot more entertaining than previous administrations have," says the White House aide. "The whispering here is that we're over budget and where we can, we're trying to save money."

Nights on the town in NYC and Paris cost a lot of money. Let the capitalists pay foe their own freaking meals, Michelle and I are now on easy street and are enjoying spending all that taxpayer money on our slightest whim.

[Will88]

"The whispering here is that we're over budget and where we can, we're trying to save money."

Budgeting just isn't one of the Obama administrations strong points, if they have any strong points.

[Malone LaVeigh]

I guess the WH will have to simplify its menu in order to make ends meet.

[Skid Marx]

"We've done a lot more entertaining than previous administrations have," says the White House aide. "The whispering here is that we're over budget and where we can, we're trying to save money."

That is typical, utter bullshit. This is merely this "president"'s method of putting his guests in their place. Little gestures of rudeness like this add up to big enmity, which isn't forgiven easily, if at all. This clown had better watch his step, or his term in office may be shorter and much more difficult than he had imagined.

[MEGoody]

I don't have a problem with someone having to pay for their own meal if that individual specifically asks for a meeting with the President over a meal. I do have a problem with it if the President is doing the inviting.

If Obama needs to curtail costs, let the members of Congress and other Dem political cronies pay for THEIR meals.

[Candor7]

Obama hasn't got even a whisper of "nobless oblige" anywhere in his narrow minded frame.

Obama spends his entertainment budget on Dems and the Bwack Caucus. If you are from the greedy business social class, or are in auto industry management, and NOW if your are in the Health Care industry, you must pay for your own meal at the white house.( Remember the lobster Snacks on the Campaign Trail in New York City?)

This is typical self righteous Utopian idjit manners.If there is no hospitality, its because Obama wants to disempower his "guests."

Hell, I wouldn't eat in the White House without a professional food taster by my side.Meals from fascists? You couldn't pay me enough to eat Obama food. (It would just be puked up anyway.)

And I certainly would never have eaten anything cooked on a grill by Bill Clinton either, ( no telling where his hands had just been.)