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Saving $$$ for Congress' jets. If I was a CEO I'd bring a bag lunch. Who thought of this, what a small mind.

Bet the Wednesday night date night folks don't pay.

1 posted on 08/10/2009 4:27:48 PM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson

So if union leader dine at the White House, they will pay too? We’ll see.


2 posted on 08/10/2009 4:40:07 PM PDT by fhayek (You may always assume sarcasm in my posts)
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To: SJackson

He may be physically tall, but this is the smallest (de facto) president in history.


3 posted on 08/10/2009 4:45:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (If we're an Empire, why are Cuba, Iraq, Philippines, Japan & Germany independent?)
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Oh yeah, THAT solves the “ethics problem”.

Whadday think? 200 bucks for lunch?

Is he implying that’s a high price for a couple of private hours with a president-for-sale?


5 posted on 08/10/2009 4:51:16 PM PDT by Timeout (Brits have the royals. Russia, the Nomenklatura. WE have our privileged "public servant" class.)
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Talk about spin!!! The White House is charging for the lunches, not because of ‘gift giving’ and ‘influence peddling’ but because its current occupant, having flown in his pizza chef from St. Louis, and ordered $100/lb beef, has already blown the White House’s entire year’s hospitality budget.


6 posted on 08/10/2009 4:51:23 PM PDT by EDINVA (A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul -- G. B. Shaw)
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Never mind the millions and millions of dollars wasted by congress for junkets, and of course, brand new airplanes.


7 posted on 08/10/2009 4:52:22 PM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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Did the cop and the prof pay for their brews? Did interloper Biden?


9 posted on 08/10/2009 4:59:02 PM PDT by shalom aleichem
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This rag misses the entire point!

These CEO’s were not there to influence Zer0. They came to our White House at the request of Zer0! Where’s the Feingold influence pedaling! Zer0’s trying to influence them!

Maybe its time for Zer0 to pay his own way on date night in the city. Pay for the advance team to weld sewer covers shut; for the team to check out all the venues; pay for the flight; pay for all the local police detail; pay for dinner, and the food for the SS detail; pick up the bar bill; pay for the play tickets and all of the SS detail tickets; pay for the limo to be flown in from DC; pay for his and mama’s clothes.

Maybe then the $5 million date night wouldn’t be worth it.


10 posted on 08/10/2009 5:29:18 PM PDT by aShepard
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To: SJackson
Feingold, when he served in the Wisconsin Legislature before traipsing off to Washington, was the bulldog behind legislation that outlawed gifts and other perks to legislators, things like free dinners and drinks, pen sets and the like, or even a cup of coffee.

Like Chris Dodd's preferred loan?

11 posted on 08/10/2009 5:44:10 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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You should have stopped me at the dinner roll....


14 posted on 08/10/2009 7:28:38 PM PDT by Don W (The root word of diversity is DIVIDE)
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