Posted on 08/13/2014 9:24:12 PM PDT by upchuck
President Obama won't make any major announcements on immigration reform during his secretive mid-vacation trip back to Washington next week, the White House said Wednesday.
The president is expected to return to the White House on Sunday, but officials won't say why Obama is taking the unusual, and costly, trip back to Washington. He's expected to return to Martha's Vineyard, where he's been vacationing, on Tuesday.
Speculation has circled around whether Obama might make an announcement of executive actions he's taking on immigration reform, or a surprise visit from a foreign leader.
But the White House is "not anticipating a major announcement on immigration when the president is in Washington," spokesman Eric Schultz told reporters traveling with Obama in Massachusetts.
Schultz did say that Obama will be meeting with Vice President Biden while he's back in Washington. And Obama will be without both press secretary Josh Earnest, who is out on paternity leave, and Schultz, Earnest's top deputy, while in the nation's capital.
"Eric Schultz is staying," the spokesman quipped, dipping into the third person.
Adding more mystery to the topic, Schultz said the administration did not "anticipate any major significant news developments out of Washington those few days."
But if the president is only coming back to meet with staff face-to-face, it could invite questions about wasting taxpayer dollars.
According to Air Force documents obtained Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, the roundtrip travel expenses for the president's 2013 vacation to Martha's Vineyard totaled $1,164,268.
A return to Washington merely to meet with staff would also seem to undercut assurances offered by the White House that the president is fully operational, even when vacationing away from the capital.
Asked about partisan criticism of the vacation last Friday, Schultz noted Obama "travels with a wide array of communications equipment, and we also travel with a staff that allows us to have robust operational capabilities."
By going on vacation, Soetoro is sending a message: He CELEBRATES the slaughter of Christians, Jews, and other non-Muslims.
He never goes anywhere except to do something evil, to promote something evil, or to pick up money.
“Even Rachel Maddow is calling him out on MSNBC, right now.”
if you can take her for more than thirty seconds, you’re a better man than I.
you know, a second reading of my own post could be taken as a compliment to maddow.
Is Reggie Love anything like Muskrat Love?
I thought he was coming back to a big party where the hildebeast would be present.
That’s funny. Get plug for the sponsor of Rush and Hannity. And that’s why BO would never use them. Besides, the pomp and ceremony of his majesty deigning to return because the world can’t revolve without his steady hand.
And now the press is worried about his extravagant expenditures? After all their flagrant spending with money that is not theirs?
He probably has a couple of fundraisers to attend in D.C.
Maybe to announce new Supreme Court candidates?
To see a boyfriend?
Valerie said to.
The jerk just wants to keep his name in the news. Nothing more.
DeaconRed
Here’s the Reason.....He’s going to SCREAM about CONGRESS being on Vacation, and he couldn’t do it while he was at MV!!!! And all the media will cover it like it’s a real story!
Robin Williams’ suicide is getting too much attention. Speculation focus will now be on Obama.
They realized they left the dog back at the Hut?
A few days ago, FReeper Kaslin posted a long list of foreign leaders who visited Bush at his ranch in Texas. So, why wouldn't a foreign leader prefer Martha's Vineyard to steamy DC?
And why couldn't King Barry issue his next freedom-sapping Constitution-shredding EO from his vacation palace?
Maybe his stash is low and he needs to meet his connection.
Getting a little more taken off the ears.
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