Posted on 10/28/2014 12:34:26 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
Vice President Biden and several top White House officials have vacationed with their families at the same log cabin in Grand Teton National Park. Located on Jackson Lake, the rustic getaway is the perfect escape from the fast-paced Washington grind.
The cabin also happens to be owned by the federal government, and was banned 20-some years ago by the National Park Service for anything other than official use.
Some great reporting by Times Zeke Miller has prompted the Interior Department to ask for an investigation into Bidens stay, as well as uses of the cabin by several Obama cabinet secretaries, such as Education Secretary Arne Duncan and former transportation secretary Ray LaHood.
Government officials, including Biden, who use the Brinkerhoff lodge are often given briefings and tours that satisfy the official use requirement, Jackie Skaggs, a Grand Teton National Park spokeswoman, told Miller. At issue is whether those officials should reimburse the government for extended stays, and for bringing friends and family along.
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I'll wait to see what official business is claimed.
yep
Come on. The Central Committee of the Communist Party deserves its perks. Think how hard they’re working to destroy this country. It’s gotta be exhausting.
You’re not going to have time to do all that, so you’re going to have to give something up. I’d suggest giving up the “death” part.
Yellowstone is my favorite place ever. Going again for the tenth time. I would be happy to die there and never go anywhere else.
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“Biden, LaHood and Duncan each claim they will pay whatever they owe if the parks department sends them a bill.”
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Three bank robbers are nabbed by police as they’re leaving the bank they just robbed. They hand the money to the cops and say Here. This is reimbursement for the money we just stole. Cop says Okay. Thanks. Have a nice day. (From Adventures in Liberal Land)
No kidding. It would be well worth the taxpayer’s money to keep Biden and Obama there 365 days a year. It would free them up from all their “work”.
I’m fine with it but only if Biden promises to go and never come back.
I don’t have a problem with this...Better that the property is used rather than just sit there and just waste away...Could you imagine Biden vacationing at Disney World?
They would have to give Goofy the week off...
Is that Newt Gringrich? Sure looks like him.
$25 a night for four nights? I use to stay at a smelly as motel in Zanesville Ohio on hunting trips 25 years ago and paid $50 a night and the view was let’s just say less than awesome. All the Kings men sure have it nice today.
Wow. Not a bad deal for 12 people for 4 nights. Comes to $25 per person per night.
I'm sure Biden left a lot of empty bottles laying around, I wonder how much it cost us to send a vice-presidential clean-up crew afterwards.
Corruption is a hallmark of this administration, isn't it?
who’s doing the investigation, Holder?
National Park Service - another government agency that needs to be reigned in and cut in size. It’s full of bureaucratic a-holes who think their god.
Lodge, no. Dacha, yes.
“When the Vice President does it, it’s not illegal.”
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