Pork on the Menu
It’s not every day you get to celebrate a trillion dollar spending bill. I can understand the wish to celebrate—but beef? Japanese beef?
Wouldn’t pork have been more appropriate?
Can the Obama administration be anymore tone deaf? After pushing his $1.1 trillion Generational Theft Act of 2009 through the House last night, the White House apparently decided to throw itself a swank cocktail party. According to ABC’s Jake Tapper, the menu included alcoholic beverages (vodka martinis are an Obama favorite, reportedly) and wagyu steak.
Yeah, “wagyu steak.” I had to look it up, too.
On the heels of the most expensive inaugural celebration in American history and passage of a trillion-dollar spending binge that will saddle future generations with unprecedented debt, perhaps President Obama might consider cutting back on such indulgences.
Turns out wagyu steak is just the generic term for Kobe beef not raised on Kobe.
I’m a little uncomfortable criticizing the first black president for whooping it up in the White House. Especially comparing him to his tea-totaling, Kraft American on Wonder Bread predecessor.
But “I won” as an excuse is going to wear awfully thin awfully soon.
Carol said,
January 29, 2009 @ 11:23 am
I’m starting to feel a little better about the $35 per pound my butcher charges when he says he has Kobe beef in his case. I tell him he’ll know I won the lottery when I finally buy some of that stuff.
I hope that The One will stop acting like a kid with his first job in an ice-cream shop pretty soon. So far, he’s been a brat (”I won.”) and now he’s being sybaritic. If he were doing this on his own dime, I wouldn’t even take note, but it’s mine and he should stop it. This is disgraceful.
All I can think of is an illustration I saw once of the end of “Animal Farm” of the pigs walking on two legs wearing top hats and tails.
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
January 29, 2009 @ 11:46 am
Too true, Carol. I forget who it was who said (or about whom) that after a few ice cream and pickle induced tummy aches, he’ll show more maturity.
And do I understand you correctly, Carol, that you are saying you can put top hats and tails on a pig, but it’s still a pig?
BTL
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
January 29, 2009 @ 12:02 pm
Hey Carol!
Turns out he sweats like a pig, too!
Martino said,
January 29, 2009 @ 12:16 pm
What is it with this guy? Do any of you guys recall hearing the last president crying about Air America, or the New York Traitorous Times? And now we have Mr. Champaign and Caviar Dreams staring us in the face. I get the feeling this guy is a bit of a wuss.
Carol said,
January 29, 2009 @ 12:41 pm
Martino, my first guess would be no one has ever in his life slapped him down hard and told him No. I have both of his books at home (carefully purchased used to avoid payment of royalties) and will be reading them soon. He really is acting like a spoiled child who cannot bear contradiction or being questioned or asked to justify himself. Perhaps what we finally have stuck ourselves with is the quintessential baby-boomer.
My thermostat is set at 66. Man, he is a brat. And he isn’t “from Hawaii” any more than I am from Florida any more. Once you have lived north of the Smith & Wesson line for more than 10 years, you don’t get to be such a big baby about winter weather.
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
January 29, 2009 @ 1:04 pm
When do you think Obama last shoveled snow?
I calculate that every time we get a six-inch snowfall, I have to shift about 400 cubic feel of snow—a block of frozen precipitation bigger than seven feet high, wide, and deep. No blower, no illegal immigrant help, just elbow grease and back pain.
I realize I’m being that big baby you refer to, Carol, but this guy’s lounging in the Oval Office in nothing but a Speedo and a Tommy Bahama, complaining about the cold, while some of us are still waiting for the feeling to return to our toes.
Didn’t Carter leave one of his cardigans behind in a closet somewhere?
Carol said,
January 29, 2009 @ 2:25 pm
Huge difference between frozen toes from daily snow-shoveling and “I’m from Hawaii” when you haven’t spent more than two weeks at a stretch in the tropics in the last 20 years. I complain when my toes freeze too, and when I have to shovel snow. Especially when I have to shovel snow.
Brad said,
February 6, 2009 @ 8:31 pm
I am starting a campaign to have it spelled “Øbama”. Please feel free to join my movement.
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
February 6, 2009 @ 9:15 pm
That’s interesting, Brad. Can you tell us how you make the O with a slash? I can’t figure it out on my keyboard.
- Aggie