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39955fb7-9cb7-4c43-803a-6db84c76fe46 No one can say our President don't know how to party. Were tallking Lifestyles of the Rich and Elected. How can Obama even think to throw this expensive bash as America’s poorest wait for Social Security checks that may never come on Aug. 3, President Barack Obama will be out celebrating a milestone birthday at a party where tickets cost up to $35,800 each.
Obama has chosen the first day of the potential default to throw his 50th birthday bash, combining it with raising money for next year’s election. His actual birthday is Aug. 4.
Republicans are slamming the decision to have the party as “insensitive.”
“This really shows how unserious he is,” Republican Rep. Joe Walsh, a fellow Chicagoan, tells Newsmax exclusively. “I realize it’s his birthday, but he is a president who has said he doesn’t know if social security checks will go out that day.
“If that’s the case, I cannot believe he will be having a big party that very day.”
Obama said on Tuesday that he cannot guarantee that social security checks will go out from August 3 unless a deal can be reached on raising the nation’s $14.3 trillion debt limit. “There may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it,” he told CBS’ Scott Pelley.

Unless the deal is reached, government services across the board will be cut and in many cases closed down.

“My first thought was that he will have to fly to Chicago before the third because I can’t imagine airports will be open,” said Walsh. “And he’ll have to have a huge supply of candles because the lights are going to go out.
“I am amazed he will be able to have a party at all.”
Walsh said he hopes to be in Chicago on Aug. 3 himself to be with his family in case the calamity that Obama has warned about comes to fruition. “I just doubt I’ll get an invitation to the party,” he said.
Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson is expected to perform at the birthday bash at the historic Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. The event will be one of the president’s biggest fundraisers of the year. Publicity literature featuring a red, white and blue Happy Birthday logo has already been produced.
The event will be “multi-tiered,” the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The Hudson concert would cost $50; admission to the party $200; a premium seat $1,000; a souvenir photo with the president $10,000; and VIP seating and dinner with Obama $38,500.
Another GOP Congressman, Louie Gohmert of Texas was incredulous about the timing. “That’d be as crazy as setting up golf games in the middle of going after Osama bin Laden,” he said. “I’m sure he wouldn’t do something like that – or maybe he would.”
Obama has been leading contentious talks all week with leaders of both parties in the House and Senate to avoid the August 2 deadline. On Friday he warned of financial “Armageddon” if a deal cannot be reached.

 

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The FAA found a way for the bin Ladens to leave the USA on 9-11, so I bet they can keep at least one runway at O'Hare open.  Electricity is not a fedgov function so it wont be affected, as will 85% of the fedgov activities.  I really, REALLY hope there is a shutdown as it will just be a vacation for me, and the Repubs will have to carry the blame way past 2012. 

Be serious ditto, libs screamed bloody murder when Bush went to a birthday party for McCain as if he could have set a jet down on the Louisiana coast line after Katrina hit.

 

Obama is doing a fund raiser while telling seniors they won't get their checks. Do you think any of them will vote for him in 2012?

Originally Posted by skippy delepepper:

Republicans are slamming the decision to have the party as “insensitive.”
“This really shows how unserious he is,” Republican Rep. Joe Walsh, a fellow Chicagoan, tells Newsmax exclusively. “I realize it’s his birthday, but he is a president who has said he doesn’t know if social security checks will go out that day.
“If that’s the case, I cannot believe he will be having a big party that very day.”
Obama said on Tuesday that he cannot guarantee that social security checks will go out from August 3 unless a deal can be reached on raising the nation’s $14.3 trillion debt limit. “There may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it,” he told CBS’ Scott Pelley.

Unless the deal is reached, government services across the board will be cut and in many cases closed down.

 

Skippy 

 

 

A birthday is like Christmas: It only comes once a year.

 

There is one way the Republicans can ensure that the party won't come in the middle of recipients looking into empty mailboxes. But it won't be like this:

 

McConnell: Not a single Republican will vote to raise debt limit

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-50...20079228-503544.html

Originally Posted by JimiHendrix:
I was talking about you. Are you sure that you and Skippy aren't the same person? Or, at least, married?

Quite certain that we are distinctly different people, that I'm not married to anyone, and that you really should seek help. Really, therapy and meds could probably do you a world of good.

 

The thing is, to paraphrase Captain Malcom Reynolds, "It's a real burn being right all the time". You are so fortunate to never have this burden.

Originally Posted by JimiHendrix:
You have to stop thinking that everybody has their hear where yours is.

My "hear" ? Oh, I get it, you can't be bothered to double check your posts with your indelicate recto-cranial inversion. You know, if you would extract your head from you sphincter "necklace", you might catch a breath of fresh air and get a totally new outlook on life. I mean it only stands to reason, don't you think? Oh wait, you don't do you? You really don't... so sad, a mind is a terrible thing to waste and all that...

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