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Gov. Deval Patrick, who is playing a lead role in President Obama’s re-election campaign and readying for a book tour, is spending the weekend in Washington, D.C., where he’s being wined and dined at the White House and huddling with Democratic governors. Patrick is in Washington for the National Governors Association winter meeting, and his dance card is filled with official and personal business. Yesterday, he met with Democratic governors at the JW Marriott Hotel for a confab on global markets. Last night, he was scheduled to attend a reception at the Chinese Embassy. This morning, he joins the roundtable...

While Obama does nothing practical to stop the economic bleeding of the American system and its people, he has now established Wednesdays as his weekly revelry day—replete with cocktail parties, well known entertainers to amuse both Mr. and Mrs. Obama and their guests and dinners consisting of the best in imported fare—including multi-course dinners and $100/lb steaks. These are what are left of our tax dollars at work. With their actions, the Obamas seems to be parroting the words of the oft—if questionably—quoted Marie Antoinette who purportedly said satirically of the French starving masses: “If they have no bread to...