Thinkin’bout Stuff

While many of us might be trying to decide if we have enough money to take our wives out for a nice dinner, it is comforting to know that our hard-earned dollars are being put to good use:

First couple’s date: dinner and a Broadway show – The president and first lady jetted for a date in New York late Saturday afternoon, aides and media in tow.

“I am taking my wife to New York City because I promised her during the campaign that I would take her to a Broadway show after it was all finished,” the president said in a statement an aide read to the press.

Following dinner at Blue Hill, a West Village restaurant touted by New York magazine as a “seminal Greenmarket haven” that features food grown by chef and owner Dan Barber on his upstate farm, the president and first lady were headed to the Belasco Theater to see “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.”

The White House declined to say how much the trip was costing taxpayers.

Not begrudging President Obama a night out with his wife, glad he can find the time.  But did WE have to pay for it?

It’s not as if they were in NYC on official business and took in a show while there.  They hopped on a jet, flew into NYC, had dinner, caught a show, and flew back to DC.

This on the taxpayer’s dime; this from a man who criticized American businesses for holding conventions in Vegas; this from a man warning of the dangers of carbon emissions and and taking over auto companies to force them to make cleaner more efficient cars… guess it didn’t occur to him that flying the royal couple to NYC and back would cause any pollution.

Who says America doesn’t have royalty.

#1  Keep hearing how VP Cheney’s criticism of the Obama administration is unprecedented and that he should keep his mouth shut.

Well… I don’t seem to recall Al Gore and Bill Clinton keeping their mouth’s shut, but even if they did…

The constant political attacks post-election by Obama & Co against the Bush administration have been vicious, partisan, misleading at best, and clearly without precedent.  Doesn’t matter what mistake Obama makes, it’s all because of something Bush did or it is justified because Bush did it first.

So why is it acceptable and justified for team Obama to attack team Bush but not OK for Cheney to resond?  Thankfully we are still a few years away from losing our 1st Amendment rights under Obama…

#2  Did it ever occur to you that those of us who did not support Obama’s campaign still indirectly donated to it?

Since it is a given that most of Hollywood is somewhere between left and far left, by going to movies, buying DVDs, downloading movies and music we are making these loons rich.  They are taking that money we hand over to them so that we can have the privilege of watching them play dress-up on the big screen and using it to fund liberal causes.

Think I’ll stay home and watch the TV….