Drinks Are On the (White) House

PARTY AT THE WHITE HOUSE
Well lets all hope they dont Kill eachother lollol

Pretty bad, he has to get people drunk to get this passed. We may have to get drunk when it doesn’t work.

I dont know what all this concern has been about food and drink for th past few weeks.
These people are entitled to eat. Shesh.

I wish it was different, but Mr. Tapper Mitch McConnell is not the Senate Majority Leader. Then again, if President Obama co-opts the GOP, maybe he and Reid become co-majority leaders in a de facto one party system

You cannot imagine the thrill all of us average Joes are getting up our legs right now when we think of the GOP standing strong – together, for a CHANGE.
This is big. Way more than Big. Huge. Fantastic.
WAY TO GO GOP

Oh,,the party still going on and on.
I wonder if Obama will tell GOP Reps, hey..I won!

This is actually a good idea. I am glad to see Obama encouraging bipartisan socializing. I mean, who would dare turn down an invite to this particular cocktail party? That would be boorish. They need to work on that old Reagan/Tip O’Neill idea of fighting it out while on the job and turning it off while off the job.
See, we Republicans do not reflexively reject everything Obama does. Okay, make that, this particular Republican does not. I’m still very much opposed to the present shape of the “stimulus package” and thrilled that 11 Democrats joined all the Republicans in the House in voting against it. That does not mean that they can’t all socialize and get along with one another.
Oh, and Concerned, I LOVE your PORK acronym. That’s clever– somehow I had not seen it before. I know you catch a lot of grief around here, but I admire your willingness to continue to speak out regardless of the flack you catch.

I hope Obama has as much success winning over Republicans this way as GW Bush had when he invited Ted Kennedy et al to socialize and watch movies in the White House early in 2001.

hmmm maybe we should do a mascot trade
Because its the republicans who are stubborn as mules right now.

Where’s Anvil Joe? I wonder how gaffetastic he becomes after tippling a couple?

Obama was selected. He didn’t win anything!
Blago is a good guy in comparison! :)

Considering the country’s economic condition was this a CASH BAR? I don’t drink and feel the government shouldn’t pay for booze.

Wagyu steak? That’s over $100/lb. Now we now why Obama is demanding a trillion dollars from hard working Americans – to pay for his incredibly expensive taste in lavish food and drink. I’m glad he’s making such a great example of “sacrifice”!

A quote to note for all members of government this broken, corrupt system we have: “Let them eat cake.”

“almost no Republican support” ???
“almost” ?
More like, “no Republican support”

It’s actually good to be able to socialize with your opponents from time to time. It gives each side a chance to see the other as something different from an implacable enemy.

“We all must sacrifice”
Barack Hussein Obama

Please tell me one job this pork bill will create? Now the Dems are calling this a “recovery plan” not a stimulus plan. Stimulate the economy by doing away with payroll taxes, ss tax, and make credit card companies lower their rates. Money in hard working Americans hands stimulate the economy, not parties at the WH with an expensive steak and stuck on themselves politicians.

Am sorry but I do find at this time this kind of partying is rather shameless indeed, what message at these people trying to send to us, while we all sit and wonder how bad things are going to get.
Some may find this appealing but I certainly do not, Mr. Obama I do not think this is what you were elected to off for.

You want to create (&save jobs) ?
Whats being done for small business?
More $$ to broken school systems !
Restrictions on Charter schools !!
( Public schools at 1/2 the price …
but with LESS GOV guidance..
more parental participation..
‘CHOSEN’ by parents ( & O’Bama )

Wagyu is a type of japanese cattle, almost all of that wagyu beef sold in the US is actually raised in the US- and is no where near as expensive as top kobe raised in japan. You can buy a flat iron wagyu steak at my local supermarket for $6. That’s what billionaires eat huh? I hate people that think our president should eat like he’s working class.

This is why this phoney suit has no clue about what is going on in the REAL AMERICA.
HEY POTUS….we are eating hamburgers and hot dogs with the money that we have to work to earn….you are spending OUR money on exorbitant food and drink to convince the folks that are in Washington on OUR PAYCHECK. You complain about corporate jets and redecoration of their offices, yet you practice WORSE spending excess YOURSELF.
Have you ever heard the term. “Walk the Talk?”…You are just “talking and talking and talking your talk.”
Get some real here, bud…we don’t have time to workout and do press conferences…we are at school with our kids when we are not working our jobs, when we are not doing work on our houses and cars…..so show LEADERSHIP, BUD…HOW ABOUT SOME BURGERS AND ICE TEA?????

Mitch McConnell is the minority leader and Eric Cantor is a Republican from Virginia. Minor details, but not a surprise from Tapper. I remember him as a hack in the Slate.com days. It is tough to convert from an online-hack to a legitimate journalist. Spell-check won’t point facts vs spin.

@Omentum:
Pelosi and crew write ~650 pages of fine print and give everyone a couple days to try and read it and the Republicans are being stubborn by voting no before they’ve had time to go through it. Not like the democrats are being sneaky trying to ram a ton of pork through before anyone has a chance to find out what’s in it…
You can be an ideologue if you want, but can you really argue that giving people mere days to sift through 650 pages of fine print isn’t a clear attempt at sneaking stuff past?

Uhh, Senator McConnell is NOT the “majority leader.”
The Democrats are in the majority.

I wouldn’t be able to keep my meal down if I had to dine with pelosi reid and company.

I wonder how many millions this party cost…

I don’t want the president of my country serving chicken wings. I don’t need idiotic symbolism from the White House. Enough with this class warfare.

Obama is really beginning to make me sick…I’m getting really tired of his constant refrain, “I understand your concerns and appreciate your input.” B/S – small businesses are closing faster than ever before and the stock market is dropping like a rock! Grow some Obama!!!! NOW!!!!

Some of you guys need to chill. We are aware we have a broken government that needs all of our help. If you not a part of the solution, don’t be a part of the problem, and opinions about everything. The news media loves you folks. It makes their jobs easier with the fears and anxieties. Some of you are eating too many biscuits, with not enough gravy. How many parties were held that we did not know about. Did George Bush pay for his daughter’s wedding reception that was held at the white house. There was food and booze.

Wagyu beef is a type of beef that tastes great but is riddled with fat throughout. You can not simply cut the fat off like you can with common beef. The fat is what makes the meat so tasty.
The largest market for it is overseas but it is mostly manufactured in the US and Australia. If one wishes to purchase it then the beef typically has been raised here, shipped to Japan, and then shipped back to the US, attributing to Wagyu’s high price tag.
How fitting that tasty, fat-riddled, over-priced, inefficiently-produced meat was served at this party.
It would be even MORE fitting if it was jammed down everyone’s throats whether they wanted it or not.

“Let them eat Cake”

ABC NEWS….great reporting….
“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky”

So why shouldn’t the dumz celebrate? They just scammed $850bn andf Madoff only got $50bn from libs like them!

Well, you fools wanted change, you voted for Obama…now he’s rolling over on you all…and you complain?!!
Like the Toyota commercial from many years ago said “you asked for it, you got it”!

I’m sure a great time will be had by all while old WWII vets are freezing to death because their electric utility places a “limiter” on their electricity service.

I want to retract my vote for Obama.
$100 per serving steak is not the change I wanted. $100 per serving steak is not the “Era of New Responsibility” that I voted for.
Fool me once…

Quick
After eight years of posts bashing Bush from you and your friends I don’t think it would be an exageration to say “you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet!”

Anyone claiming they voted for a guy but would not vote for him a week into his term because he served high quality meat in the WHITE HOUSE FOR GOD’s SAKE, is a LIAR.

I don’t know who is trying to snow who here but the majority of Wagyu beef raised in the US is exported to Japan. It’s difficult to find in the US and consequently has a very high price when compared to other breeds of beef.
So far, nothing knew in this administration, the same old inner circle Washington corruption living it up like kings at the taxpayer’s expense.
Hey BO, you lead by example, or perhaps you have not learned that.
Or is this just another “Kings clothing” story? It certainly seems so as apparently none of them can do anything wrong in the eyes of an adoring media.
Who are the real fools? The ones in DC or the ones that put them there?

I served waygu beef at my last dinner I made for my wife. The beef total cost me $11. It was bad enough when the Dems were living off of it…I can’t take it from the tax cut party now too.

Wagyu steak costs $100 per serving? THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!! How dare this liar Obama talk about “sacrifice” and “responsibility” and then serve steak that costs more than most families spend on food in and entire week!! And this after his $150 million inauguration, the most expensive in history!! Palin in 2012!!!

Yeah. Thanks for the change.
The tax payers are supposed to sacrifice.
Things will get worse before they get better.
Our energy bills are going to double because we aren’t allowed to use our own resources.
The bailout recipients are supposed to give up all luxuries.
The government thieves keep on riding the high life. They should be leading by example. Pelosi gets a plane but that’s OK.
TERM LIMITS!!! 12 years and you’re done as a Senator or Representative.

kinda reminds me of “I feel your pain”

Is this new? We know he has contempt for the American people. We know Acorn is in his pocket (ours). We know he is a usurper/fraud. So what do you expect? Would the pigs at the trough come if hot dogs were the offering? Maybe some of that Kenyan soup or Obama beer will be offered as hors d’oeuvres… In any case, hold your liquor, GOP, watch the others get blasted. You are on camera, tape, etc. They want to pick your brain, that is, if you still have one. Vote no on anything OBAMA.

For the stimulus: Being against the stimulus is like a being a builder who turns down a job because he won’t borrow money to buy a hammer. Economists on the right and left agree, but facts lose to ideology for those who voted no in a partisan block: See you in 2010.
Posted by: Graham P. | Jan 29, 2009 3:56:10 AM
NO! More like a builder taking $30,000 down on a $100,000 job and spending all that money to remodel his office. Than says he needs more money to do the job

Not only is wagyu actually pretty cheap, but it’s being served as an HORS D’OEUVRE–meaning little pieces of meat. Even if it is $100 a pound (which it isn’t), it’s not like these people are eating a pound of it at a time.

They can serve what they want in the White House, and if Pres Obama is trying to practice civility and good manners more power to him. Sure different than most Dems. However, his policies still need to be opposed because they are not good for America.

Regardless of party, if ‘We the People’ do not pay close attention to what is going on in Washington D.C., we will all find ourselves sold down the river.
I’ll give you one fine example no one is pointing out for us. The 13% increase in Food stamps (entitlements) i not just for the duration of the stimulus package, it appears to be permanent. While I have not had a chance to read the entire bill, so far I have determined a minimum of 7 billion dollars is going to Bureaucratic oversight. Do not get me wrong, oversight is good; but every time corporate America does more, the work force is expected to belly up and do more to insure things work out right. So, why is not the same true of gigantic government? We the taxpayers are asked to tighten our belts, so I suggest either Washington does the same or risk losing their jobs.
Congress had little of our trust before the elections. If they sneak things through this legislation they will have even less; and there comes a point where, regardless of party, the people are going to vote tehm out.
The one other point to be made here is that the media is not being forthcoming with us and telling us us the whole truth. guess we need to let their advertisers know our displeasure.
Neither Obama, the Democrats, or the Republicans are going to get this country out of trouble. It is up to each of us to make our feelings clearly known to each of our representatives so they know they are being watched closely.

even the Mafia has more sense than to flaunt their power in the publics face…
these people are crooks with no brains… and the majority (54%) love them…… you’ll be sorreeeeeeeeeeee……

Victor,
End stupid spending, yes (like booze at the WH)! Stupid tax relief=oxymoron. Tax relief, yes!

If spending got us into this problem, which we all know it did, how can spending solve the problem??? The country is totally insane. The solution is to take the pain now and cut the budget, not expand it into oblivion. Inflation will eat us all alive and we are going to have to come up with new currency, very soon.

Come on y’all, I’d rather not have my commander in chief spending his days approving menus.

Appropriateness test: Imagine that George W. Bush served “chicken curry, wagyu steak” at a private cocktall party for the party elite….
Would the LSM be lauding HIM for his congeniality in hosting the “bipartisan bicameral leadership of the House and Senate” with goodies like this??
In a word, NO!

“ALMOST no Republican support”????? Try NO Republican support!! Get your facts right ABC.
The Republicans stood 100% together against this load of bs.
FINALLY!!!!!

CONNECT THE DOTS & SEE THE PATTERN: last week, obama made it a priority that no lobbyists work for him, and then made an exception that same day fo deputy defense director. Then he told the Repubs that he “won.” then Pelosi & Co. kept the Repubs out of the loop on the bill. Obama and Biden gave virtually NOTHING to charity over the last several years. Many Americans are out of work and he hosts the most expensive inauguration in history. Then, while Americans are out of work and suffering, his FIRST move is to appease the terrorists at Gitmo so that the world will like us. And then, this week, he gives an interview to an Arab media outlet and points out that he has Muslim relatives, although we NEVER heard that during the campaign. Meanwhile, while the rest of the world might like us now, Americans are still suffering. This guy has NO clue about what/how to do anything to lead. He’s an elitist that wanted the job. Now he has it and it’s all fluff so far.

It’s GOOD that the Republicans stood together and that NOT ONE of them voted for the PORKER bill.
That way, only Democrats can get blamed for this when it doesn’t work, and when not ONE job has been created.
Of course, knowing the LSM, they will find some way of pinning this on Republican “stone-walling”….

C’MON, PEOPLE, WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT THIS?
IDEAS?
CALL THE INVITED AND TELL THEM NOT TO GO? MAYBE WE TELL THEM IT’S WRONG?
THAT’S OUR FRIGGIN’ MONEY THEIR SPENDING!

After dinner Obama called out”check please” and everyone lol.

This whole thing is just so wrong.

“…with ALMOST no republican support.” I think you mean with ABSOLUTELY NO republican support. Right? Don’t let the facts get in the way of your report, John!
Alright people, now that the government has just bankrupted us we are now just about ready to enter into the “new world order.” Because we all know if each countries own governments can’t handle the responsibility, then a larger world government will finally screw things up beyond repair and apparently this is the goal. And I must say, they are sticking to their plan most impressivly. Too bad they don’t do as well with their campaign promises. Remember 95% of the American people are going to get tax cuts?
Hey Al Gore, global warming is about as pressing as having a zit with the plague.
Excuse me, I need to go vomit now.

Funny… I didn’t know there were TWO Senate Majority Leaders! :)

Here are some other facts that should be presented to the President and the Socialists in Congress:
Obama 65,445,417 52.56
McCain 57,446,266 46.14
Nader 679,465 0.54
Barr 500,045 0.4
Baldwin 180,864 0.14
124,252,057 99.78
Total Estimated Americans 305,707,734
Adjusted for 18+ (based on Census Records for 2007 229,280,801
2008 Votes for Pres - 124,252,057
People not Voting* 105,028,744
An estimated 105.02 million Americans did not post a vote for either candidate…
…the masses will not stand for this type of incompetence forever. The Republican Party and Conservative Democrats ought to RUN to the Constitution and READ it now… stop attending popularity dinners! The American People love LIBERTY and FREEDOM from TYRANNY!

It is worse than that.
Three days (9/6/05) after Katrina hit N.O. I suspected the liars would erupt so I sneaked in and d/l the Emergency Preparedness Guide: Hurricanes for N.O. from their site.
Oh, they DELETED this section it soon after I got to it, but I still have the hard copy and I am staring at it right now.
Nowhere, I repeat nowhere are the Feds or FEMA allowed in until AFTER the hurricane strikes.
In fact, the responsibility fell onto the Nagin AND the OEP (Office of Emergency Preparedness) of N.O. and that both offices was offered full access to FEMA but didn’t do anything!
The only time FEMA is mentioned is post hoc (see the last stunning page):
1) For insurance
2) The only time the levies are even mentioned are AFTER hit inspection and preservation.
And on and on.
This guide is far more stunning than the lies fed you by the left. You know about the 2,000 school/municipal buses that could have taken 100,000 people out of harms way, but did you know:
1) Nagin (page 8) even had complete authority to even commandeer all the tow truck to clear of I10 and all traffic stoppages? And on and on!
2) Nagin (and Blanco) failed to meet any timely information and communication with anybody let alone issue an evac EO that would have been law to evac ANY parish!!
The same for the Gov (Blanco) who had complete power to order evac anytime and did not in a timely manner.
Thank God Bobby J is in but the only reason Nagin got back in is that we hated Moon Landreiu for letting his daughter Mary STEAL the election from Woody Jenkins.
You should know that I even offered it to the Times-Picayune during that witch-hunt of a hearing but all the City Desk editor at that time,(****** ******), would say is, “Sorry, pal, that’s politics.”

Cal – Great Post!
Technology is great, except that the people responsible for the website information can change it at will! The digital age is important but Books and hard copy reference material should be a standard for all Americans… If there were only digital books the Socialist in Congress would have no problem rewriting the Constitution to fit their agenda!

Believe that Obama is beginning to see that substance over style will win when push comes to shove. (Meaning that Nancy Pelosi may have won the battle, but the war is still being waged!!)
The more daylight that is shown on the ‘stimulus package’, the smellier it becomes!!
A bit shocked that Obama — as smart as he is — is buying into such a lousy package. Would think that he would be trying to gain the confidence of the American population … vice Queen Nancy, and Prince Harry Reid!!

“President Obama, it should be noted, is not a particularly big drinker,”
Really?
Should it really “be noted”
Every picture of him for the past week has been holding some kind of booze in his hand.
Cocktail parties, happy hours, etc…
Oh, ok….I guess it “should be noted”
Please tell me why it “should be noted”
Drinking alcohol is fine, Mr. President, now please show us some proof of citizenship.

I would have invited Ron Paul.

“Let them eat brioche (cake).”
- Marie Antoinette, suggesting that royal bread be given to the armed, hungry peasants who soon overthrew Versailles and…well, you know what happened to her.

Wow. Reading through these comments, I’m clearly able to see what’s wrong with our country and how we’ve landed in our current economic crisis: our nation consists of a bunch of whiners! Boo hoo. Do people really expect any new President of the United States to serve wheat thins and water? Of course there are going to be nice meals. There always have been. And you know what??? With the salary caps Obama imposed on day one; FAR more money is already being saved than going out.
These meals are nothing new… Mr. Bush was the BIGGEST and most frivalous spender and partier we’ve had in the White House for decades.

The $100 steaks are just the beginning. Today’s NY Times quotes David Axelrod that Obama cranks the thermostat up high in the White House: “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.”
Isn’t this the same Obama who lectured us fat lazy Americans to keep our thermostats turned down because the rest of the world wouldn’t like it?

Funny that Obama isn’t a big drinker. I just received a wine magazine that said he keeps a collection of 1000 bottles in his Chicago home. Perhaps those are for guests only?

I glad no Republicans voted for this spending spree. $6,700 per household is a crime. This isn’t a stimulus bill; it is pork and pay backs to Democrat supporters. Democrats can take the blame by themselves!

When you have dinner with the messiah you get what he normally gets. This is food that is fit for the chosen one.

This is why HE ran for office. Not “FOR THE PEOPLE”…but for the PERKS!!!!

He should have invited Ron Paul – then maybe there would have been *some* intelligent discussion.

Why does it surprise anyone that we have a newly elected president with an economic meltdown on his hands, serving up big government spending and $130 apiece steaks using taxpayer dollars?
His Homeland security pick could not keep her states borders secure.
His Atty. Gen. pick approves of killing women and children who don’t pay taxes (Waco and Ruby Ridge), and kidnapping children at gun point (cuban kid).
His Sec. Treasury pick cheats on his taxes.
His Chief of Staff cheats on his taxes (his personal house is the base for his bogus foundation so that he doesn’t have to pay property taxes).
His Financial Advisors tell congress that they shouldn’t give stimulus money to white construction workers on infrastructure projects.
His Sec. State’s only qualification was that she flew around with her husband a lot and got a senate job because of him, did bad land deals in the private sector, and has a huge financial conflict of interest with a foreign nation.
His Ed. Sec. pick wants to have segregated schools for gays.
And mr. president himself gives his first TV interview to Al Jazeera, and tells them that he doesn’t see why relations with arab countries can’t go back to the good ol’ days of 20 or 30 years ago. Yeah, back when we had hostages in Iran, marines being bombed in their sleep in hotels, airplanes and ships hijacked, Americans being killed all over the world by muslim terrorists.
And a stimulus package that pays voter fraud organizations millions, and basically pays back every liberal special interest that got him elected.
Wow, less than a month into his presidency and we really are seeing a lot of change.

I wonder when all you Obama bashing morons, who likely supported 8 years of Bush/Cheney (6 of those with GOP control of Congress too), will have the courage to face up to the fact that your beloved conservatives have run this country to the brink of another Great Depression. But hey, I don’t expect you to have the courage to admit your mistakes. Cowards never do.

WAGYU STEAK??? AT $100/LB? I guess this President forgot all about his Food stamp roots.. But I guess we knew that when he talked about Arugula….
The taxpayers paying his salary are lucky if they can afford hamburger, and this guy’s soaking in WAGYU. DISGUSTING display of snobbery.

For Richey and friends, if you did your homework, you would know that the financial meltdown was mostly caused by liberal policies of social engineering, and republican culpability is mostly around not being loud enough when they saw the problems in the first half of this decade.
Don’t blame conservative policies for ANY of it. Even the capitalist greed resulted from government manipulation of the market.

I am absolutely amazed at how dumb this “President” is. Let us recall that this guy has never ever run anything. He was a member of Congress–they are not administrators and neither is this jerk. I can’t believe Obama breaks 100 on the IQ scale.

“President Obama, it should be noted, is not a particularly big drinker, though he has been known to enjoy a vodka martini time and again.”
By his own admission he also liked to smoke pot all day and do some “blow” when he had the money.

I don’t it, Citibank can’t buy a jet cuz it is too lavish and it does not look good to the unemployed taxpayers–AIG can’t have big parties cuz it is too lavish and it does not look good to the unemployed taxpayers.
So explain how this lawmaker Whitehouse party is NOT TOO LAVISH and it meets with approval of the unemployed taxpayers.
I’m a foody and I never eaten wagyu steak….hmmm, in fact it is the first I’ve even heard of it….hmmm. Thanks Mr. O for steering me to a new cult item!

Get Ready folks… you thought Madoff was a crook?
When was the last time you added up the dollars it takes to make 816,000,000,000.00.
Does that work in your economy?
THEY ARE SPENDING OUR MONEY, and our children’s money and condemning them to the lifelong payback of this unfathobamaful debt.

Didn’t an elitist politician once say of the poor and hungry, “Let them eat cake?” Perhaps Obama will share her fate.

After flooding Congress with Fax Messages AGAINST the phony “stimulous” bill I would like to thank the House Republicans for having the cojones to just say NO! This is NOT a stimulous to our economy, it’s a liberal spending spree that they hope will guarantee their power for years to come, similar to the Johnson welfare program that kept poor blacks in bondage to the Democrats for decades! Their grip on the throats of poor people is shameful and should not be reinforced by passing this ridiculous bill.

Keep drinking the Kool-Aid retrocon. And keep deluding yourself into thinking “trickle down” economics works. Typical neo-con babble. Keep pissing on people’s backs then try to convince them it’s only rain. Funny that now that Obama has been in office a whole week, suddenly it’s all the Dems fault. Were you sleeping during those 6 years the GOP had absolute power in Washington? And by the way, while your conservatives were in control, the overall economy was in steady decline. The dollar became the peso, the deficit skyrocketed to record levels, health care became even less affordable, and gap between rich and working class became even larger. But hey, don’t let the facts get in the way. No, let’s worry about abortion, stem cell research, gay marriage and all the other peripheral issues you neo-cons use as a smoke screen to hide the failings of your policies and world view.

Yeah, let’s invite Ron Paul. We can talk UFOs, BigFoot and other wacky things like that. Please the guy is a wacko and that is why he received the tiny amount of votes he did.

To say that wagyu steak is raised in the U.S. is almost like saying that Champaign is made in California. If it was raised in the U.S. it’s not truly wagyu. But you people are missing the point. NO Republicans supported this bill, YET 11 Democrats did not support it. So, the bipartisanship on this bill was against it. It is NOT a stimulus bill it is a Democrat wish list. Who cares what THEY eat at their party, they are asking us to eat SCAT.

He is the president of the most powerful, most influential, and still the richest country in the world people. Have you ever heard the saying “Dress the Part”. FDR held lavish balls during the worst days of “The Great Depression” to emboss the image of power over circumstance on the people and the world and we don’t call him crazy do we? Obama will continue to spend money on State affairs and plane trips across the country and globe, and we should want him to continue this.

Shoddy journalism strikes again! “..almost no Republican support.” How about NO Republican support. Come on Jake, read the figgin numbers and you and the other closet Dems at ABC write an honest report for a change! It is a sham to say that the Porkulus package will stimulate the ecomomy, and the Republicans and 11 Democrats had the guts to speak truth to power. I like Rush’s proposal in the “WSJ” today.

I’m not an Obama fan, but Jeremy is right. I just read a bio of FDR in which I learned that the White House food budget comes out of the president’s pay—a fact that bothered Eleanor a lot.

Paul V
Bush was not the biggest partier in the WH. There were very few parties, particularly compared to the clinton WH. so get your facts straight. there were lots of complainst about how few parties there were. Bush wouldnt even play golf because he felt it wasn’t appropriate while we were at war. I am so tired of the Dem lies. I was a Dem…. but 9/11 changed everything. Now indi

To The Winning Party
Psst…Obama was selected just like Bush was. ;)
We all lost our democracy…YOU are just too ignorant to know it.

Richy,
love it when kool-aid drinkers call me a kool-aid drinker. First, Obama didn’t cause the meltdown, liberal policies did… read the post. Trickle down economics works because it increases the size of the economy. Trickle up doesn’t work because it creates a closed bubble, simple redistribution, no new investment to grow. Duh. Republicans (not conservatives), had a part in the melt down, but their part was mostly not taking the problem as seriously as they should have. Bush, by the way, was not a real conservative… he was a moderate, but not the satan you libs make him out to be. In any case, democrats were in the majority and presidency when they created the laws that caused the meltdown. Every time the repubs did say something about the pending problem, Barney and friends would scream racism and class warfare, so politics usually own. Republicans, until recently, had lost most of their backbone. Anyway, You’re the one drinking the media kool-aid on the Obama love-fest. Sorry about your inability to reason, maybe it will recover and you’ll be able to go out and buy your own $100/lb steak, instead of taking mine.

To Teri
Who really gives a ratts behind what they are eating ? Most ludicrous nonsense even written about. It belongs on Entertainment tonight ..not as a news story.
It’s the Fing White House what the hell do you think they are going to eat .. baloney sandwiches?
Enough of the redneck nonsense
If it is so evil then the Republicans shoudl not show up..
House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, D-Va.
Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., Chair of the House Republican Conference
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., Vice Chair of the House Republican Conference
Rep. John Carter, R-Texas, Secretary of the House Republican Conference
Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, R-Mich., Chair of the House Republican Policy Committee
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.
Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., Chair of the Senate Republican Conference
Sen. John Thune, R-SD, Vice Chair of the Senate Republican Conference
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, Chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee
Sen. Jon Ensign, R-Nev., Chair of the Senate Policy Comm
Dont bitch at the winners bitch to those losers..tell them you don’t think it’s right and that they should pass on the Dinner invite

Nice that Obama can host a party celebrating spending our money on social engineering programs under the guise of “stimulus.” Meanwhile, thousands of Americans are wondering if they’ll be able to put food on the table. How much longer will Americans buy Obama’s rhetoric at the expense of our nation’s economic well-being.

Hey, The winning party, i can actually agree with you on one point… the Republicans should NOT show up. Or, they should whow up and eat the chicken, and then make a huge point to get an amendment into the “spend like a drunken debutant” stimulus bill for ten million to subsidize wagyu beef production for Whitehouse parties.

Retrocon
I don’t eat steak. Prefer pork and veal.

Wagyu is in fact raised in different parts of the U.S. There is a big producer in Oregon who raises and processes Wagyu and Kobe beef for buyers in Japan. He has been doing it for 30 years. They sell it at my grocery store for $26.00 a pound not $100.00 a pound. Even the Wagyu and Kobe quality beef FROM Japan sold at Japanese marekts in Chicago runs around $30.00 a pound. It’s basically a step up from USDA Prime which only comprises 2% of all the beef grown in the U.S.
I was in Kobe Japan last June. I ate a truckload of Kobe and Wagyu beef there. Most of their Kobe beef comes from cattle raised to Kobe standards in America.

I am lucky that I have not lost my job yet. A good sum of the monies I am allowed to keep after the government steals its fair share are currently going to friends and family that are not in good shape. Once again this shows how useless the government has become. It kills me with how many people think that the government is better at spending your money than you are. It is time for an armed revolt. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.” –Thomas Jefferson

Floydd
The only thing ghoulish is your rhetoric. We’re in the midsts of the worst recession most of us have ever experienced and you’re still babbling on about this tired old issue. So you’d rather see mothers having babies who don’t want them? How about supporting birth control? And spare me the adoption argument. There’s legions of kids out there waiting for adoption who can’t find a home. And conservatives like you, of course, want to force women to have kids yet you probably oppose any sort of government support for low income, unwed mothers. Better they live like animals on the streets and then grow up to be criminals, eh? Brilliant. Another intelligent argument from the folks who brought us Bush/Cheney.

Wagyu Steak = House Special Cat
Order 3 days in advance $200 per pound.

Some Chicago “toughness” on parade.
Meanwhile, check out “The Financial Crisis Is Driving Hordes of Americans to Suicide” — not to mention MILITARY suicides … and the`”National Emergency Centers Establishment Act”, H.R. 645, from 22 January.

Obama has killed over 75,000 jobs in his first week as “president”, and now this arrogant elitist has the gall to throw himself the most lavish and expensive coronation in history and dine on $100 per pound steaks?!?!
And he has the nerve to complain about CEOs? Obama’s dinner cost more than Thain’s $35,000 toilet.
Even FDR toned his inaugration down during the Depression.

Seems as if both Obama & “we the people” got duped in this gourment party. We got duped, b/c REAL Kobe, from Japan, is not imported into this country. The stuff that the White House & “we the people” paid for is American Kobe STLYE beef that actually retails for about $50-$60/lb. I know, b/c I cook for a living. We got hosed on this, but we will get hosed even more with this idiotic SPENDING (not Stimulus) BILL. Who cares, though, right. The economy’s in the crapper, but “let them eat hamburger” seems to be the new mantra of the Dem party.

Knock, knock…..HELLO!!! Anybody in there????
OMG, let’s all get “up in arms” about what they are going to stuff their faces with and NOT have a conversation, AT ALL, about the astronomical amount of money spent on the inauguration, AT OUR EXPENSE, during a recession that is starting to feel a lot more like a depression.
Oh, my bad-it was a LibDem being inaugurated. It only would have been a problem if it had been a ConsRep…….

Beef production houses in Kobe have been contracting out to other producers to custom raise their cattle for them. Most specifically, Harris Ranch in California, among other producers in America and Australia—land and grain is cheap over there, and it’s worth the shipping costs to have the cattle raised overseas. So they have the cattle raised to their exactingly specified Kobe standards, and they actually fabricate the carcasses in Kobe, making them legally “Kobe Beef” even though the cattle were actually born, bred and fed somewhere else.
The “Wagyu beef” designation can legally be applied to the meat from any cattle of the Wagyu breed; it’s a genetic thing, not a place appellation or a reference to how the cattle were raised and fed.
End of discussion on this beef thing. Look it up.

Article edit: “President Obama, it should be noted, is not a particularly big drinker, though he has been known to enjoy a vodka martini time and again, along with smoking pot and endulging in a line or two of coke.”

I saw Wagyu steak on a restaurant menu lsat week (nubo) at $47 dollar per OUNCE. Make that into a steak. Ridiculous. I also prefer a teetotaler as a president.

If OBama wants to cut Spending – start at home my friend – quit having so many parties at the Tax Payers expense and change the Menu – 50$ steak – what a rip off -

The Drudge Robots are out in force today! Drudge tells them to follow a link and be indignant, and they get so fired up that they can’t resist spewing in the comments!

Lulzy – who do you follow – The New York TIMES (Every single cover for the last few months has had a pic of OBAMA on it) – MSNBC – where the men cry and get goosebumps up their legs just to be near Obama – - – CNN – Communism News Network – stay tune someday we will carry the news but for now – Cloony…Who do you follow for your new Lulzy?

Stop worrying about the high cost of the steak they are eating, even if it is between $50 and $100 an ounce! Think of what the pork they are serving up is going to cost you…. if you are a taxpayer! All others need not be concerned… your pork (and the steak meal) is being paid for by us working stiffs!

Well, It looks like his critics are correct.
Obama will be nothing more than a cocktail party President.
The dude is pushing a big gov bill that will in no way stimulate the economy…and he throws a party!
Bush was a working President. Obama and Clinton…Cocktail party presidents. Unfortunately…Obama has some of the traits of that idiot Carter as well.
Time to bury your money in the back yard and buy some guns. Because the twit will destory things within a year.

I heard a lot about Hope and change,
and I believe it!!!!
I Hope I will have some CHANGE left from My paycheck in the next four years

Drudge is KING. get over it. broadcast media is dead. drudge readers actually READ the news, supplied by various outlets with various bias. Drudge does not steer opinion, he is only a conduit. But the dude’s site is KICKING everyone else’s arse, so bash him all you want. he is the new King Of Media.

Wagyu steak. Is that not what Nero supped as he consumed wine and played the lyre as the Great Fire of Rome consumed Circus Maximus?
A party with this crowd of charlatan’s and clowns sounds more like the maximus circus.
In these dire economic times water and pasta would be a more appropriate libation and sustenancce, if not a more serious gesture to the unemployed and others of us (myself included) being raped by the ravages of poor economy.
Come on guys and gals…get to work and do something real to stimulate the economy. I’ve been going through the HB and I’m finding little that will stimulate anything.

After vacationing in a $9 million ocean front home in Hawaii (keep in mind, Huffington Post assures us it was in a “low-key town”), is it any surprise that Obama now wants to hold fancy cocktail parties with expensive Japanese steaks and other delicacies (apparently US-bred Angus was not good enough for his tastes). I hope the Republicans don’t fall for this nonsense.

Don’t forget: First lady Laura Bush showed off a new $493,000 gold-rimmed set of official George W. Bush state china on Wednesday, January 7th with less than two weeks to use it before the family packs up for Texas.
It was the most expensive china ever purchased by the White House.
EVER!!!

These “journalists” are sickening. they ask the prophet Obama about his Super Bowl pick when they should be asking about his $100 steaks, the most expensive coronation in history, and his tax-dodging Treasury Secretary! Obama has no business lecturing anybody about sacrifice until he lowers his thermostat to 68. Hypocrite liar!!!!

“Don’t forget: First lady Laura Bush showed off a new $493,000 gold-rimmed set of official George W. Bush state china on Wednesday, January 7th with less than two weeks to use it before the family packs up for Texas.
It was the most expensive china ever purchased by the White House.
EVER!!!”
Ahem… that china was completely paid for by private donations. Either become better-informed, or take your horse-squeeze faux-outrage somewhere else.

Guess we do not raise any good American beef since Bush left office! Must be part of Obama’s buy un-American program to stimulate the economy.
Do what He Says — not what he does!!!!

Why no invitation extended to Mr. and Mrs. Barney Frank?

Ahem… that china was completely paid for by private donations. Either become better-informed, or take your horse-squeeze faux-outrage somewhere else.
Marcus, you are right, but I never actually said she did purchase it with tax-payer money. I am more angry that she felt the need to out-do the other purchases made by previous Presidents.
As far as my outrage goes, I was as angry with Bush as you are with Obama. There’s nothing faux about how either one of us feels. I just expect these types of dinners to take place no matter what the climate of the economy is in the US. This should have been expected. Every President has done this, and will do this in the future.

Jack: Taxpayer money was wasted by Bush on any number of other things, so it doesn’t really matter if his china was paid for by private donations. Mr. Bush found a lot of other ways to squander our wealth.
This is what I don’t understand: Republicans stood by while George W. Bush acted worse than Lyndon Johnson, spending like a frat boy in a strip club. Many of them even supported Bush’s insane bailouts of the financial sector. But now we’re supposed to believe they’re the party of fiscal responsibility? Republicans need to learn that borrowing is every bit as bad as taxing, maybe even worse.
Actions speak louder than words, and for years Republicans have only been in favor of limited government when Democrats are in control. Democrats are going to spend us into ruin, but they’re only picking up where Republicans left off.

DontForget, you brought up the china to smear the Bush White House, hoping it would blunt the criticism of The One. The fact that you knew that the china was purchased with private donations but decided to spin the example anyway is further evidence of a pattern in leftist American politics. It is no different than saying “Republics want to cut Social Security” when you know full well that they were proposed reductions in the rate of increase. Just because you can get away with something doesn’t make it right, or “good politics”. It is just plain dishonest, and you should be ashamed to knowingly spread false information in order to make your point.

And, Jim, Wagyu is raised in a few other states too:

Joseph Moran.
You should engage your brain (big assumption here) before engaging your mouth

Yuck, Boehner was invited to the dinner party. Obama must be really trying hard to be bi-partisan! Personally, I wouldn’t want to look at Boehner’s nauseating, lying fascist face with all that good food around.

They’re also bringing in their own private chef in addition to the chef who already works in the WH – clearly Obama knows about “sacrifice” in this economy.
They also hired an “intern” from their campaign who ordered over 30 expensive designer dresses for inaugeral parties although she was on a scholarship at her college so apparently the only people who are “sacrificing” in this economy are people who don’t work for Obama.

Wasn’t that little get together we threw for him 20th enough? I knew it. I knew it was gonna be like this. The real danger her is Michelle, she’ll make Kimora Lee Simmons look downright frugal.

Wagyu steak?
And cranking up the White House thermometer?
Time to celebrate the Age of Obama! Not only is the economy completely turned around to allow for these delicacies (state dinners are one thing, this is another), but global climate change is no longer an issue!

I’m just amazed most of you guys are all upset over a dinner that will cost at most $5000 when he had the most expensive Inauguration ever. I’d rather foot the bill for the steak party than for the ridiculous party that welcomed him to office.

Someone suggested giving the money directly to the American people?
How would you spend it?
If money was placed in our hands, the majority of us would over indulge. waste it. stuff it in our mouths.
We are just as guilty as the government.
Keep bickering about the little things and we will get no where.
Get over the steak.
Do you think Bush ate pork and beans?
There was just more substantive things to complain about regarding Bush.
If this is all you got on Obama we will do fine.
Go clean a park. Help an old person.
Get off your butt.

“Someone suggested giving the money directly to the American people?
How would you spend it?
If money was placed in our hands, the majority of us would over indulge. waste it. stuff it in our mouths.”
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No, you’re wrong. What you’re describing is the majority of Democrats acting that wastefully, not the overall population, however.
The whole excuse that Obama and other Democrats are using for their expansive wastefulness (“Stimulus”) is that the first Stimulus (checks mailed out) was not “spent” or recycled ENOUGH back into the economy, that most people, on average, used the money to SAVE or to pay down debts.

Sure if you gave the money to us, many of us would over indulge with it…meaning we’d be spending it which would vitalize the economy.

Hypocrite! He preached on the campaign trail that we shouldn’t crank up the thermostat or eat what we want and that we drive the wrong cars. I can’t afford to keep my thermostat at 72! My thermostat is at 58 and I wear double layers around the house. Steak? what’s that? And I drive a small car that is 9 years old! They should all be ashamed of themselves while the rest of the nation suffers.

Wow…so if blowing $1 trillion on the Deflated Society from 68-08 just so Detroit could be 47% illiterate wasn’t horrific enough, Barry wants to ‘double-down’ on that bad bet? Over wagyu beef and cocktails? What will it take?
Same-party presidents lose seats *every* first mid-term! 30 seats flip GOP in 2010 and your 17% approval-rating Congress is *toast*); and Barry is sent back to Illinois in 2012 with his yellow tail between his legs…heh heh heh. SCHADENFREUDE!

Why does no one use the correct verbage? They are not giving anything to anyone. They are taking it and not letting us keep it. It’s OUR money.
What ever happens from here on happend on BO’s watch. Bush is gone, you won, get over it.

Dave,
It is not OUR money.
The money is not borrowed.
The money is printed.
Current amount of money M2= 7 trillion
Add the 1 trillion Obama wants and every
dollar you earn is worth 14% less.

All this talk about steak is making me hungry. I think I’ll celebrate also! I only buy things when I have the cash to do so. I never use credit cards. My house is paid for, and worth more than I paid because I skimped on luxuries, rode the bus, and paid it off in 7 years. Only after did I buy a car, and I bought my car with cash. I have some great toys that I only bought by saving for them and waiting patiently for them to go on sale. The rest I add to my savings account. If I am laid off tomorrow, I’ll be ready.
Americans need to be more fiscally responsible for themselves, and stop depending on the govt to write stimulus checks. This 800B+ is going to turn this recession into a depression! Who here doesn’t realize that with every loan, there is interests. This stimulus, once paid back, will have cost US $3 Trillion. I’m going to the store now to get what may be one of the last Porterhouse steaks I’ll eat for a long while. They’re only 12.99lb, and pretty tasty!

Don’t begrudge the politicians their fancy food. We can “eat cake”, can’t we?

Surprise, surprise – the Obamas eating the world’s most expensive steak, washed down with cocktails, while working Americans make ends meet with meatloaf. Now, that’s sacrifice.
The Obamas on working Americans: “Let them eat cake!”

Oh for goodness sake! This is cocktail party where they serve slivers of food. Get that? Hors d’oevres. Not steak dinners. Slivers of steak,tiny tomatoes and cubes of cheese and miniature food, people! Haven’t any of you ever been to a coctail party? Lord,make a sliver of steak into a federal offense and you will wind up looking like a coctail weiner!

Some ask ‘Why is it a big deal??’ It’s more of ‘do as I say, not as I do’ doublespeak coming out of the mouth of Oz. You know, the man behind the curtain using smoke and mirrors to impress everyone??? He whines about CEO pay, yet Oz just went from about $174K/year as a senator to $400K/year as prez. And he gets about half that for the rest of his life as a pension. How about that, work 4 years as a senator, get elected to president for 4 more, and get $200K/year pension for 8 years of work. While I’ll acknowledge that discussions about executive salaries are valid, Oz has no credibility when chastising them based on his lavish lifestyle while the rest of us suffer with our zero or negative raises and layoffs.

Obama has no clue how hard the average American is working just to keep a little of what they earn. 46% income tax, but what about the gas tax, capital gains tax, sales tax, local tax, property tax, and don’t get me started on the fees and fines.
Then when someone that pays into the system, tries and use the system it doesn’t work. Unemployment insurance is a joke, WIC a tragedy, and the welfare foods stamps is enslavement to bureaucracy.
Meanwhile Americans are losing their jobs and Obama is spending millions on his crowning, Billions to his buddies that put him in power, and drinks for everyone in the power circle.
Real reform on the technolgical release of military/government technolgy into the civilian market(mainly high schools and community colleges) would burst this whole economic problem. TAKE THE TECHNOLOGICAL LEASH OFF! NOT ADDING MORE GOVERNMENT!
SO out of touch….

“Posted by: dave | Jan 29, 2009 6:41:37 PM
All this talk about steak is making me hungry. I think I’ll celebrate also! I only buy things when I have the cash to do so. I never use credit cards. My house is paid for, and worth more than I paid because I skimped on luxuries, rode the bus, and paid it off in 7 years. Only after did I buy a car, and I bought my car with cash. I have some great toys that I only bought by saving for them and waiting patiently for them to go on sale. The rest I add to my savings account. If I am laid off tomorrow, I’ll be ready.
Americans need to be more fiscally responsible for themselves, and stop depending on the govt to write stimulus checks. This 800B+ is going to turn this recession into a depression! Who here doesn’t realize that with every loan, there is interests. This stimulus, once paid back, will have cost US $3 Trillion. I’m going to the store now to get what may be one of the last Porterhouse steaks I’ll eat for a long while. They’re only 12.99lb, and pretty tasty!”
Your last name sounds like it is Ramsey!
LOL
Better than I deserve!

Well, considering that HALF the country voted AGAINST the empty suit, why should we go along?

Where the martinis spiked with Koolaid?

Why weren’t all you right-wingers so upset when Bush flew in wagyu steak from Australia? At least Obama is giving money to AMERICAN cattlemen. But that’s the GOP for you… country last…

$100/lb. steak? This is an outrage! I wouldn’t pay it if I were you.

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