Obama Skips Lunch: Food ‘Taster’ a No-Show

All right, we hold elections every four years and we hire these guys. Then they go on $900,000 golf outings, squeeze us for $100,000 in separate vacation expenses, $500,000 FLOTUS romps to Spain; and as much as $200 million a day for a dubious trip to Mumbai!

Now we learn the President of the United States needs a food taster in tow before he can eat lunch with the Senate of the United States?

The DC:

WASHINGTON — Following President Obama’s lunch meeting with Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill, Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins described the food served and said the president was not able to eat since his “taster” was not present.

“University of Maine recipe for healthy lobster salad — I pointed that out to the president in keeping with the first lady’s initiatives and Fox Family Potato Chips made in Aroostook County where I’m from and wild blueberry pie full of anti-oxidants, see this was a healthy lunch as well. We did have a little ice cream on the pie too, also made in Maine, Gifford’s Ice Cream. So in all seriousness this was well received,” Collins told reporters on Thursday after the meeting at the Capitol.

“Unfortunately, you know, the president can’t,” said Collins when asked if Obama ate at the lunch meeting. “He looked longingly at it,” Collins continued. “He honestly did look longingly at it, but apparently he has to have essentially a taster, and I pointed out to him that we were all tasters for him, that if the food had been poisoned all of us would have keeled over so, but he did look longingly at it and he remarked that we have far better food than the Democrats do, and I said that was because I was hosting.”

Susan Collins in an attempt to assassinate the president? Not to be unkind, but Senator Collins couldn’t find the door without a guide dog.

Just how does one apply for this job? Who is this person and how much do we pay him? We can’t keep White House tours humming but we can cough up the piasters for this mo tard to sample pig on a spit? When does the dwarf-throwing contest begin?

Okay, we realize food tasters are not unique to the Obama presidency, but with George W. Bush there was at least the suggestion of danger; he had Helen Thomas in the press pool.

And is this not this is why we have line of succession and a vice president? Okay, bad idea.

Mr. President, you have eaten dog. The First Pooch can’t take this risk? What, are you saving him for Thanksgiving?

Has Obama’s ‘Mean Team’ Overplayed His Hand?

UPDATE: FIRST PUP BO OBAMA KEEPS HIS MOTORCADE THROUGH SEQUESTRATION CUTS.

Breitbart:

Outrage is growing as a group of sixth graders continue their campaign to stop The White House from using the excuse of sequester budget cuts to close its doors to tourists next week so they can go on their class trip. [Video]

STORY:

Barack Obama must be waking up with sciatica in the morning, the backlash has been so severe over his cutting of the White House tours this week. Especially in light of his personal extravagance. White House tours, a favorite of students visiting Washington, have been open to the public for decades, and are given sans tour guides.

In his zealousness to make sequestration meet the disastrous claims of his marathon End of the World Tour, Obama has come off looking like a twenty-first century caricature of Simon Legree, in reverse.

One has to believe that Obama’s “mean team” advisors have red behinds this morning, the public outcry has been so vocal. The response from the Right has been priceless, as well.

NewsBusters via Drudge:

President Obama actually had the nerve this week to close down the White House to tours as part of budget sequestration.

Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer on Fox News’s Special Report Thursday observed, “The President’s travel expenses alone for the golfing outing with Tiger Woods would pay for a year of White House visits.” [Video]

“So I suggest that perhaps he curtailed the travel, or perhaps auction off the set of clubs and he might be able to allow those Iowa tots to come through the White House,” Krauthammer added. “I’m not cynical enough – I’m trying.”

Uh-hum. This is embarrassing.

To make matters worse, Eric Bolling at Fox News’s The Five has jumped into the fracas offering to personally pay to keep the tours up and running for one week.

Mary Katherine Ham @ Hot Air:

As long as we’re shark-jumping, President Obama, let’s pole vault these suckers, shall we? 

The White House’s transparently petty decision to inflict sequester’s pain on America’s middle-schoolers (as if those years aren’t tough enough) revealed its sequestration doomsaying as silly and its post-doomsaying behavior as spiteful. In a rare good PR turn for Republicans, what was meant to make them look like heartless meanies has held the White House up for ridicule for its utter unwillingness to prioritize. Upon hearing the estimates that the White House’s cancellation of tours might save the administration $18,000-$72,000 a week, Fox News anchor Eric Bolling— I’m sure they’re fans at the White House—decided to come to the aid of The Children.

No wait, that’s not all. Hearing about Bolling’s selfless gesture, Fox colleague Sean Hannity jumped in and offered to pick up another week.

Wow, whodathunk! Barack Obama has finally become transparent in spite of himself. First Rand Paul eats the President’s lunch while he’s taking a herd of RINOs to dinner; then Obama plays Scrooge McDuck, and it’s not even Christmas.

Yes, You Can’t, Mr. President.