With Government Shutdown Looming… Obama Plans Weekend Getaway
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, April 7, 2011, 9:14 PM
Unreal.
Life’s a party.
With the government shutdown looming… Obama plans his weekend getaway.
Daily Press reported:
The leader of the free world may be coming to Williamsburg for some rest and relaxation if Congress is able to come to agreement on the budget. President Obama and the First Family are planning to visit the area this weekend in what the White House described Wednesday as a “long-planned family trip to Colonial Williamsburg.”
But the trip might get grounded if a government shutdown can’t be averted by Republicans and Democrats in Congress.
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Muffin commented:
He’s a fraud. Dock his pay. Shut it down, Barry, so your unionites can riot in the streets.
uj commented:
Oh no! We certainly can’t have the president’s family vacation grounded by a shutdown! That would be a tragedy of tragic proportions! Somebody do something!
Paul52 commented:
Don’t forget your golf clubs, Obummer. This budget shoulda been done last summer, O Anointed One. Disgraceful.
Jrprs commented:
So he will be traveling either on Air Force One or Marine One, manned by military personnel, who will not be paid. Stay classy Mr. President, stay classy.
Militant Conservative commented:
I see a pattern developing here. One that can be exploited. Every time a major decision is to be made the “master of disaster” goes on vacation or some such.
Use this flaw to our advatage. He is weak , strike while the iron is hot.
powder is dry
donh commented:
Boehner should just quietly leave town tonight for somewhere…anywhere, and leave Obama waiting for his morning phone call for a cave in.
Dalej commented:
Dereliction of duty!!! He’s an ass, the media covers for him SOOOO much, this is an outrage!! Can you imagine if Bush took this many vacations???????????????
miar commented:
This man has balls of steel!!!!
Vacation_Planner commented:
Time’s a’wastin’ … Let’s get the budget thing out of the way, shall we? O’s got another vacation planned — this time to colonial Williamsburg.
Folks have told him that there’s some sort of history here. But his wife hear’s that the food is good, and that’s all that counts. Time to buy another scrapbook.
William Teach commented:
You can bet the ranch that Obama will skip town even if their is a shutdown. And, the media will do all they can to avoid highlighting Obama living it up. I certainly hope there will be some Conservative media around to take some pictures.
Callipygian1 commented:
At least he is taking the kids to a historic location. It looks bad, but golf would look worse.
L.E. Liesner commented:
Obama has set a precedence for the presidency. Under his stewardship it has become an eight hour a day five days a week job with two hundred days a year off for vacation. Have we got a winner here or not?
Justine commented:
Congress should cut funds for presidential vacations.
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SandyfromChesterfield commented:
The Obama’s have gone to Hawaii, Colorado, Brazil and now Williamsburg this year. How many vacations have you taken? I can’t afford one since I have to help pay for Air Force One to fly them wherever they want to go.
ed commented:
Is this site funded by the Koch bros ? What new corporate welfare programs are your leaders planing for this year ?
patman commented:
Attention terrorists:
This IS your weekend. We have shut down. Make due.
Regards,
POTUS.
PS: Blame BUSH!
StrangernFiction commented:
The ‘rats are on the run, but with the GOP being what it is, the smart money still has to be on them.
tommy mc donnell commented:
obama does some of his best thinking when on vacation.
jerrylud commented:
seems everytime theres somehing bad going on obamao runs and hides
Chisum commented:
Ed,
*Bwaaack!* *Bwaaaaaccckkk!!* Koch Bros. *Bwwwaaaacccckkk!!!*
Tell me, Ed, does it hurt when you pass the feathers?
Parrot swallower.
Bad troll…no check from Daddy Soros.
tommy mc donnell commented:
#15…oh the myth of corporate welfare again. if you don’t like corporations getting their tax dollars returned to them tell the democrats to stop giving it to them
Carla commented:
What did you expect? It seems that O and M couldn’t have afforded those trips without the bank account of their friends and now without the tax payer’s money. They are having a ball.
bigkahuna commented:
Bigears and Seabiscuit are getting all the vacations and taxpayer funded jaunts , parties, concerts, golf and general mayhem of the economy in before 2012.
If the GOP has an ounce of common sense they have 2 years worth of ads just in his idiotic statements, vacations, f*ck ups, unconstitutional behavior, hiding of past records of all sorts, job killing tactics,( oil/ green energy crap), record deficit spending, record job losses, record bungling of international policy ( by his entire adminsistration), appointments of pervert czars, tax cheating treasury secretary, unconstitutional healthcare laws, massive hidden spending within that same bill, suing of Arizona for passing laws/ enforcing immigration, takeover of GM, and others, massive loans to foreign banks, support for foreign offshore drilling but not here, fighting coal mines, doubling of gas prices, high food prices, worlds lack of respect, Muslims killing people alll over the world, lack of support for Israel, 8-10-% unemployment, 14 Trillion deficit, voting present, lack of leadership, and his wife seabiscuits meddling intrusive nature.
auntie em commented:
#15 April 7, 2011 at 9:46 pm
ed commented:
Is this site funded by the Koch bros ? What new corporate welfare programs are your leaders planing for this year ?
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Original….yawn!
You Bilderboogers and Soreasses need a new script sheet.
auntie em commented:
The youngest offspring has gotten fat and the oldest spawn walks like Frankenstein. Michelle is in no position to be giving anyone parental advice. She’s no Jackie Kennedy. They all look lazy and poor.
Lisa G in NZ commented:
what do you expect from an empty suit, usurper, totus-reader-in-chief, paid soros minion?
PARTY ON! WHEEEEEEE!!!!
let Jarrett handle it, she’s handling it all already now
Dwayne the Canoe Guy commented:
It’s interesting that Obama is so frequently photographed turning his back to us & walking away. Symbolism?
wanumba commented:
#15 April 7, 2011 at 9:46 pm
ed commented:
Is this site funded by the Koch bros ? What new corporate welfare programs are your leaders planing for this year ?
………
Not much, the Democrats have taxed the crap out of the usual big daddys and evicerated everyone’s cash surpluses to pay for the “healthcare” tax. The only guys with cash on hand are the connected democrats who got Obama waivers.
BUT! There’s HOPE and CHANGE! Lots and LOTS of CHANGE, clinking in the pockets of billionaire Democrats!!
Bill and Hillary have saved up $50 million off their grunt government salaries, so they might be willing to hire some exrta gardeners or servants to make their showplace homes look as if they actually live in them.
Bill AYers, Weatherman terrorist , Obama official autobiographer (beating out Joe Biden for the honor) and Class Warfare poseur is so rich from his daddy’s corporate lucre that maybe he’s could use someone to carry his briefcase or designer hippy satchel. Don’t let those crappy jeans fool ya. He’s as rich as Midas.
And Soros, Soros, Soros. Richer than Midas, Democrat benefactor extraordinaire. How come Demcorats never complain about HIS billions?
Peter Warner commented:
auntie em wrote @25:
some personal insults that are uncalled for and inappropriate.
Honestly, I detest most everything our elected president has done in office, and will not defend his twisted and possibly treasonous thinking.
Even so, we should not give in to the temptation of baser impulses and lower ourselves to casting personal insults against his children. Please respect their human dignity, and your own in the process.
With respect, Peter Warner.
Hjrrba commented:
He will first make a stop at Chavez compound to pick up the crack for the vacation funtime.
Sasja commented:
Funny, I never associate human dignity with the Obummers.
kato commented:
Just a pair of subprime grifters sucking up as many freebies as they can grab.
jorgen commented:
He wants to look cool in the crisis, but he mainly does it because if he doesn’t lead, he can’t be blamed for the outcome. Remember, he is not a real leader.
CommieJuice commented:
The picture truly catches their best side, but January 20, 2013 it will look even better! Live it up bHO, your days of government housing and subsidized vacations ends on 01/20/2013, make sure to have your crap packed and ready to go!
With that being said, nothing wrong with having at least 2 vacations a month. 63 rounds of golf in 26 months isn’t bad either. Nothing wrong with having other commies and socialist on the government teet. Nothing wrong with running away from all the major events and showing your true colors (red in the center, yellow on the back) and lack of leadership during your re-election campaign. Nothing wrong with any of that if you are in Cuba, Venezuela or Iran, but this is AMERICA. Too bad bHO hasn’t learned he can’t be like his idols and get away with it for long.
I think all of these polls that have him in the low 40% approval ratings are completely bogus! There is no way it’s really that high. After starting a new war and showing complete incompetence on anything and everything he even lost some of his die-hards! I’m guessing the only real support he has left would be the 95% of blacks votes, who apparently rather support a half black guy than a full white person, no other reason needed. Also the commie/socialist/marxist/flat-earth/anti-capitalist drones which make up 25% of voters. His fringe base is about 35% with another 10% who are weak minded enough to be tamed by these idiots, but he will never see more than 45% of the vote this time around. Whoever the GOP candidate is, gets a gift wrapped election like Jim DeMint got with Alvin Greene. I’m very optimistic this country will find it’s sanity again and cut back on the pathetic amateur hour going on in the white house. Speaking of Greene. He would make a great press secretary for bHO on his second term, Greene will be getting out of prison around that time with big openings in bHO’s regime, either press secretary or lead adviser to the president, after all they both sound the same when TOTUS is away.
Opinionator commented:
What I can’t figure out is why he/they would go to Williamsburg in the first place. He could give a s@#$ about this country’s history. He is anti-America. When was they last time he vacacayed at Camp David?
I can’t remember, either.
Opinionator commented:
“the”…dang notebook..
Big L commented:
who in the heck is walking in the middle. That entity has a duck-tail hair-do…HEY buster, it is 2011 now. No one wears duck-tails anymore unless it is advertoising…
Horrible….
PamelaofthePoconos commented:
The lady in red might be Grandma who appears in very few camera pictures; perhaps she’s camera-shy.
Militant Conservative commented:
Pete Warner, gawd you sound like such a priss.
hermie commented:
When GWB went to his own ranch in Texas the libs screamed that he took too many days off. But with the Won the only sound you hear is that of crickets.
When GWB played golf the MSM proclaimed that he was out of touch, but all of Obama’s rounds make him look like he was more interested in being on the PGA tour than in the White House.
Obama has kept Gitmo open, kept the military tribunals for terrorists, and kept other GWB policies, yet GWB was ‘evil’ because he did these things. The Won has not received any criticism that has been reported by the MSM.
The MSM reports that McDonalds is hiring large numbers of people, ‘proving’ the economy is getting better under Obama, but conveniently foregt to mention that McDonalds is a prime beneficiary of an Obamacare waiver. Jobs which only a couple of years ago they derided as simple ‘hamburger flippers’.
And the MSM wonders why people are paying attention to them in fewer and fewer numbers.
daryl commented:
Won’t surprise me if we learn that one of the first lady’s distant ancestors was born, lived and passed away in the original Colonial Williamsburg.
Well more far flung claims than that have popped up in their ancestry, haven’t there?
jomojava the infidel commented:
-Holiday vacation in Hawaii.
-Girls-only ski trip to Vail.
-South America tour.
-”Rest and relaxation” in Williamsburg.
Yep, they’re just like most Americans.
I suppose the downscaling to just a Williamsburg weekend represents restraint and sacrifice on their part.
annie p commented:
Obama is not going for a history lesson. There is a world class golf course at Kings Mill, then there is the Budweiser factor right next door for a beer summit. He and the Wookie can go pig out at Aunt Sarah’s Pancake house, oh the fun never ends! And did I mention the rum drink at the taverns? Delish and quite intoxicating.
auntie em commented:
#30 April 7, 2011 at 10:45 pm
Peter Warner commented:
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No thank you, sir.
As Jesus said, if a man looks on a woman and has lust in his heart, he is guilty of adultery. He didn’t say you have to act on it, you just have to think it. So, just because you use flowery, sugar-coated words to describe your disdain doesn’t mean your distain is more holier than mine. You admit so yourself. Had you said nothing about your own disdain, perhaps I would have felt the sting you intended. I want to be like Jesus, not like Peter Warner.
Controlling the tongue is hard and wise. And I wish I could control mine sometimes. The thing is, the Holy Spirit convicts me. No man, other than my own daddy, has ever done so to this day. I don’t know your skeletons, but I know you have them. Therefore, its like spitting in the wind to admonish people you don’t know. Your admonition, however, is dually noted and taken for what it is worth.
There is an attack on our children from this administration on every angle, not just dietary. There is also a brazen attack on God’s institution of the family and sanctity of marriage, as in Michelle Obama knows better than we do, so we should do as she does and not as the Lord leads. How often does she take her children to church? How does she protect them from the Safe Schools Czar? How can abortion be a means of birth control so they won’t be “punished for their mistakes with a baby” a solid parenting strategy? Their kids aren’t off limits if they are supposed to be the example we “lessers” are to follow. She put them in that position.
Children are a reflection of their parents. It is not my fault that the oldest child is insecure and exudes that. It is not my fault that the youngest child is getting obese despite Michelle’s alleged dietary regulations. I take very seriously the physical, mental, spiritual, and social health of my girls. I’ve done that since they were born and before Obama was an unfortunate anomaly in my life. How they present themselves and function in society is important to me, and I haven’t ever thought to elevate myself to the point of trying to regulate other parents. Yet, Michelle Obama has the audacity to think she knows better than any of us mothers what is best for our own children and has gone so far as to pass laws from her position to do so?? Those very laws deepen our children’s future financial burden to the government.
Furthermore, I’d put my girls up to hers in any setting without hesitation. And that, sir, would be more cruel than anything I could say.
wanumba commented:
The big mystery is why Michelle has a wardrobe comprised of dresses styled for 9 year olds. It only accentuates the big child effect when she kicks her shoes off and hopscotches around trying to look like a pal of kiddies, not a First Lady wth adult manners and a basic dignity.
She’s a new multimillionaire growing in wealth and living in total luxury that she bills to the taxapyers, daily chosing to eat what she’d never be able to afford out of her own pocket, nor want to pay for herself, while everyone else is losing their jobs thanks to her and her husband – she’s responsible also, because she’s busy concocting all sorts of restrictive legislation on Americans that hubby signs into law.
The Obamas don’t act like leaders, they act like high school brats partying at the house while daddy and mummy are out for the weekend.
money gets votes commented:
The whole family is an embarrassment…disgusting! OMGAWD and there in the white house. Sickening. One year they never had a budget. And we have to clean it up every time. We found 23B barrels of oil in SD,WY, MO but we can’t drill and he makes a deal with Brazil? AK47s shooting our AZ ranchers, shuts down our parks our valley’s but he sends planes to protect Libyan borders??? And then turns AZ over to the UN??? We can’t protect our OWN borders???!! All of these illegals bringing in HEP A, B &C-SAR, West Nile and no shot records, no physicals and sending illegals to OUR public schools. He is NOT an American! WHO would vote for this??? WHO?? Ah, yes, demorats parasites. UNIONS are for dead wood.
StrangernFiction commented:
I have only one word for the children:
RUN!!!!!!!!!
MOTUS commented:
I can’t believe how mean you guys are being to the Wons. We haven’t been anywhere all month, and we may not have that much time left to see the world on your dime.
Stuart commented:
On a positive note, when he’s screwing around on vacation, or playing golf, at least he’s not busy screwing us.
Always look on the bright side of life.
Morning Quickie commented:
Why are the democrats blaming women for the government shut down? http://morningquickie.com/2011/04/08/government-shutdown-budget-blaming-women/
They ignore our issues for years but suddenly women’s rights are important enough to shut down the government. They should stop hiding behind our petticoats!
ebayer commented:
Wow…
I can’t believe my two posts on this article were removed.
Just wow
Ok Jim…I got it
Ebayer, Neither Jim nor I have deleted any of your comments. Perhaps they are in another thread?
-Lady Liberty-
Taymon commented:
I don’t like Obama, but to be fair “The leader of the free world may be coming to Williamsburg for some rest and relaxation IF Congress is able to come to agreement on the budget.”, also this is not something Obama has the power to change, believe it or not there are 3 equally powerful branches of government. CONGRESS has to approve the new budget. The Demos and Repos Can’t agree on a budget, so rather than playing like nice little children they’re gonna un-employ a few thousand government employees, i was planning on staging a rebellion during this time, however it appears that the police are county and not federal. oh well. I’ll target an easier country.
Peter Warner commented:
Dear Militant Conservative and aunti em:
This personal reply is being posted after a significant delay intentionally, in hopes that it might be seen by only a few, to avoid having a needless argument about our character before a huge audience. May you read this.
I confronted a fellow poster about a personal insult directed at a child; such action would seem inappropriate by a standard of decency. My words were direct, but also written in respect and without malice. I did that because I am obligated to: Christ commands the elders in the church to judge action, but not the person. Leviticus 19:15, Ezekiel 3: 18-21
Rather than consider the merit of my counsel, you both chose to direct anger at me. Please reconsider your response to admonishment (see Proverbs 12:1). If there is any merit to the complaint, refusing it and turning against its source only magnifies the transgression and transfers blessings to our target. The book of Matthew explains these dynamics thoroughly. Thank you, but I would rather that not happen.
pris·sy/ˈprisē/Adjective
1. (of a person or their manner) Fussily and excessively respectable.
If that’s how I come across in this modern G-dless society, I’ll take that as a compliment, and thank you for it. The truth is I’m just a sinner who is trying to fear G-d more than the sensitivities of my fellow man.
Please reconsider your response.
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Proverbs 8:13
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: Hebrews 12:28
In G-dly Fellowship, Peter Warner.
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