By Michelle Malkin • January 29, 2009 06:28 AM
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.” $100 per serving delicacy. I had to look it up, too.
Wagyu beef is also known as Kobe beef. Originally from Japan there is also American Wagyu.
Lobel’s of New York sells American Wagyu bone-in-ribeyes for $72.00 bucks a pound.
A Kobe ribeye from Japan runs $150.00 a pound.
Personally I don’t care for Wagyu beef, perhaps my palette is not refined enough.
I prefer a bone-in ribeye from Vons rubbed with olive oil, salt and pepper then grilled over a wood fire and I can save $60.00 bucks.
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(Hat Tip; Arwyn) Obama: Heat as I say, Not as I Do
A piece in yesterday’s New York Times featured a photo of an Oval Office meeting last week during which President Obama had removed his suit jacket. And while the Times was quick to point out how this break with centuries old tradition was a sign of a “more informal culture” under this new administration, they neglected to mention the glaring hypocrisy of the action.
You see, the reason the president — and others — were jacketless was simple: “Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat.”
After all, it’s freezing cold out there, and as White House senior advisor David Axelrod reminded us, “He’s from Hawaii, O.K,” adding that “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.”
Now The One said this last May:
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that other countries are going to say ‘OK.’ … That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.”
I guess that is a royal “we” and he is right, we cant but he can.
I also agree with him that its not leadership.
And if he is from Hawaii, then why am I the one eating fried Spam?
Tags: Economy, Financial Crisis
