Let Them Eat Steak

Enjoy yourself at dinner tonight, you can relax knowing our politicans are well fed. Obama is having top Congressional Dems and Repubs over for a dinner. He's serving waygu steak.

Given their love for pork, too bad he isn't serving bacon, instead. Hey, it's your dime. You have a right to know.

At $100 for a 16-ounce porterhouse steak, Wagyu beef might be a hard sell. Evan Lobel, of famous New York butcher shop Lobel's, is undaunted.

Comments

[IslamoLlama]

Shorter Dan:

I have absolutely nothing to complain about.

[SacTownMan]

Is that served on a bed of Arugula?

[templar knight]

Shorter Moe:

Shut up. We won! Nyah..nyah..nyah..nah..nah!

[seekeronos]

Wagyū... "Japanese Beef". Arguably not as expensive as Kōbe-gyū, but definitely more than you might care to spend on a small lump of meat.

Good thing the gummint ALWAYS has our best interests in mind... wonder if some of that dough used to feed the politicos is coming out of the Taxpayers' Involuntary Bond to Save Big Business...?

[Lala]

As I understand it, the President and his family pay for their own food. Does this apply all the time, even to entertaining? If entertaining is on us, do we also pay for the food his wife, kids, and mother-in-law eat?

BTW, Michelle doesn't have that important, high paying job as community organizer at the hospital anymore. The hospital isn't filling that job, they say there is no need.

[jharp]

I'd guess, guess being the key word, that if Obama paid for it himself it would be tax deductible. As long as it's exclusively for business. And by no means do I have any idea if Obama or the taxpayers pay the bill.

Anyone know what the story is?

[Fred Beloit]

I guess we are now the 58%ers.
Public Support for Economic Recovery Plan Slips to 42%
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/business/general_business/public_support_for_economic_recovery_plan_slips_to_42

[Lala]

Fred,
That's good. How do you like this?

"Carter yesterday introduced legislation to make that happen. Carter, who is fifth in line in Republican leadership as secretary of the House Republican Conference, introduced The Rangel Rule Act of 2009 (H.R. 735), which allows any taxpayer who wrote “Rangel Rule” on their return when paying back taxes would be immune from penalties and interest.

“We must show the American people that Congress is following the same law and the same legal process as we expect them to follow,” Carter said. “That has not been done in the ongoing case against Chairman Rangel, nor in the instance of our new Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. If we don’t hold our highest elected officials to the same standards as regular working folks, we owe it to our constituents to change those standards so everyone is abiding by the same law. Americans believe in blind justice, which shows no favoritism to the wealthy or powerful.”

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30472

[jharp]

Good Grief, Fred. Can't you get anything right? Did you gradiate the sixth grade?

"latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 39% are opposed to it"

You are one amazing dude. And don't take that as a compliment.

[jharp]

"How do you like this?

"Carter yesterday introduced legislation to make that happen. Carter... introduced The Rangel Rule Act of 2009 (H.R. 735), which allows any taxpayer who wrote “Rangel Rule” on their return when paying back taxes would be immune from penalties and interest."

I don't like it one bit. And unless you like our Congress spending time on absurd and useless legislation you shouldn't like it either.

What's that term the three time divorced, drug addict, limp one, Limbo used?

Symbolism over substance? Carter is a jackass and is wasting time and money.

[Fred Beloit]

Lala, this helps point out the "Only the little people pay taxes" philosophy as espoused by Leona Helmsley. I do wish he would have called it the Rangel/Geithner Rule though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona_Helmsley

[Lala]

How about a bill that would get one a lower interest rate on a mortgage if the words "Chris Dodd" were written on the application?

[Fred Beloit]

Anyone can make a fool of himself at times. It makes it worse, however, when one is obnoxious about it.

"Thursday, January 29, 2009

Public support for the economic recovery plan crafted by President Obama and congressional Democrats has slipped a bit over the past week. At the same time, expectations that the plan will quickly become law have increased.

Forty-two percent (42%) of the nation’s likely voters now support the president’s plan, roughly one-third of which is tax cuts with the rest new government spending. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 39% are opposed to it and 19% are undecided. Liberal voters overwhelmingly support the plan while conservatives are strongly opposed."

Last week, support for the President’s plan was at 45% and opposition at 34%."
{Same link as above}

[WAHOO WILLIE]

"How about a bill that would get one a lower interest rate on a mortgage if the words "Chris Dodd" were written on the application?"

I like that Lala... Can I add "homestead exemption" to the rest of Charlie Rangels "I dont have to pay taxes like you little people" tome?

[Lala]

Fred,
It's amazing how cheap some millionaires and billionaires can be. ZsaZsa was travelling with her little dog on a flight I was handling. When I told her she had to pay $25.00 for the dog she threw a tantrum. Besides that, she had a cheap coach ticket. And she didn't get upgraded due to that little tantrum.

[WAHOO WILLIE]

Oh...and unless this is a "private" party where they use what they bought......we pay for it. There was a show about the big house last week.

[Fred Beloit]

I think you are on to something, Lala. There could be the Carter bill, which prevents former presidents from going abroad to make fools of themselves and bad mouth current American policies.

[Fred Beloit]

Wahoo might like the Clinton bill that would punish presidents who cheat on their wives with impressionable young government interns and later lie about it under oath.

[IslamoLlama]

"-- Shorter Moe: --"

That was actually longer.

[WBestPresidentEver]

"latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 39% are opposed to it"
Posted by: jharp | Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 04:58 PM
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Fred is right and your are a LIAR HARPOON LOON.
Only 42% favor the bill and they are Welfare LOONS like you HARPOON LOON.
I happen to be one of the 58% opposed to the PORKY BILL. OINK, OINK.

[WBestPresidentEver]

Well, Last night they had cocktails. Tonight it is steak huh, I think they should just roast a whole pig tomorrow night on the whitehouse lawn.
But, hey, Muslims don't eat pork do they ? LOL

[jharp]

Fred is right and your are a LIAR HARPOON LOON.
Only 42% favor the bill and they are Welfare LOONS like you HARPOON LOON.
I happen to be one of the 58% opposed to the PORKY BILL. OINK, OINK.

Posted by: WBestPresidentEver | Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 06:50 PM

Go read the link you moron.

"Forty-two percent (42%) of the nation’s likely voters now support the president’s plan, roughly one-third of which is tax cuts with the rest new government spending. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 39% are opposed to it and 19% are undecided."

[ET]

I wonder if obie will pass around a gold leaf pack of Marlboro Lights after dinner...

[SacTownMan]

"I wonder if obie will pass around a gold leaf pack of Marlboro Lights after dinner..."

Maybe smoking a "blunt" in the oval office with his old Pakistani college roommate!

I wonder if he has taken on Bill's habit yet of playing doctor with the interns!

[Fred Beloit]

Insanity has recently been described as doing something over and over and expecting a different result.
100% - 42% (who support the bill) = 58% who don't (39% oppose + 19% don't know/don't care. Do any or all of these support the bill? No. 58% do not support the bill. I am in that %, that 58%. Then there are the 42%ers, the minority who support the porkorama from Obama.

[templar knight]

"Insanity has recently been described as doing something over and over and expecting a different result".

Then we have a completely insane bunch in charge in Washington. They are trying the old socialism/communism/fascism trick again, when the failings of these systems are proof postitive that it won't work this time, either. Unfortunately, the results of these systemic failures have been millions of deaths. You would think we would learn something from history.

But, then again, we haven't had much history taught in the public schools for years now.