White House Lying Again?  Where There’s Smoke

Liar, liar pants on fire, should be the mantra of the White House news staff and Robert Gibbs in particular.

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I know it must be tough to stand there day after day after day trying to smile and joke when the man you're trying to protect is one of the most accomplished liars since, well, since Bubba Clinton, but the very UN-smooth Gibbs, nicknamed `Fibbs', makes it look, and sound, tougher. People can see through his tissue paper thin veneer and nervous little titter while trying to un-squirm his portly body from a tangled web of deceit that he has woven for himself and his boss. After the disastrous and joltingly injurious to planned excursions into other fantasia for the next two years election, the Big "O" came on TV the very next day and feigning little or no anxiety, which must have been tearing at the very fiber of his knickers, declared that the new opposition would just have to get together with he and his minions to work things out. At the very least he could have had a few beads of perspiration showing on his upper lip or forehead; but no sweat G. I., Mr. Cool acted as though some minor inconvenience had been presented to him and he was casually brushing it off with the same demeanor that Fibbs, er, Gibbs uses to browbeat uncomfortable press questions. His attitude appeared to be that the elections were no big deal and life would proceed as originally planned. In fact, he went on to talk about his upcoming trip to the Far East as if it were a walk across the street to Lafayette Park. He acted as though he didn't understand that Mr. and Mrs. Joe Q. Public want the hilariously ridiculous and extravagant spending STOPPED. And his planned trip proves it. FoxNews.com reported online November 04. 2010, by Enn Vogel, that the White House defended the costs of the trip to Asia but failed to even "guess-timate" the total costs to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Q. Public with Gibbs dismissing a report by Press Trust of India (PTI) that the costs of the Obama entourage to Mumbai and Indonesia (going home, Obie?) would be U. S. $200 million per day! Vogel reported that "Gibbs maintained that he would not go into the actual figure of what it costs." and typically as has become the daily custom of this petty palace of practiced prevarications, he backslid into the tired old incantation of the costs of George W. Bush and others. Don't know about you, but I am fed up to here with comparisons with George W. Bush; wouldn't you think that after TWO WHOLE YEARS they could come up with a more current comparison or analogy? Or better yet, IMPROVE on something that George W. Bush did? I guess it is true that the impossible takes a little longer. This so-called 'business trip' for trade purposes presumably (I still think Obie is just going back home to Indonesia) will take one whopping total of "helpers" to get there and back; and as Vogel states, "PTI released the article on the president's trip on Tuesday and made additional claims that roughly "3,000 people including Secret Service agents, US government officials and journalists would accompany the President." A more recent FoxNews.com report on November 04, 2010 titled, "Security Entourage Earning Epic Reputation Ahead of Obama India Visit" repeats the information noted above and adds, "The president will be accompanied by 40 aircraft, 3,000 people, a fleet of cars and 34 warships, according to a string of blow-by-blow news updates. The Press Trust of India quoted an official in the state of Maharashtra pegging the cost at $200 million a day. Obama's said to have booked the entire Taj Mahal Palace hotel. This 10-da day trip could cost us taxpayers up to TWO BILLION DOLLARS! That's $2,000,000,000. On top of all his other profligacies, this man must be mad. THE TAJ MAHAL PALACE HOTEL! 3000 people and FORTY aircraft! He really does believe he is really ROYALTY. UNBELIEVABLE. Small wonder that the image of the "ugly American" is so prevalent around the world and this bum is excessively proliferating it. It makes one wonder if he is not doing it deliberately in order to downgrade the U. S. ever further. Now you would think that the Indian agency that issued that report would have a pretty good idea of the size of the delegation that would be needing accommodations for food and lodging, but Vogel's article stated that White House spokesperson Tommy Vietor said, "The numbers reported in this article have no basis in reality." The Clinton Administration made famous an old joke about a river in Africa called "Denial." Seems the Obama Administration is trotting it out a lot lately itself. We have a Secretary of State and a Secretary of Commerce who I would think would be charged with going on trade missions to stir up trade between the United States and many foreign countries to better balance the income and outgo of commerce. But hey, if the Grand Poobah says he wants to go home, er, on a trade mission to Asia with 2,999 helpers, and 40 aircraft at a cost of $200 million A DAY, I guess that's the way it is going to be. But it bothers me that those 200 million dollars a day could be put to some very good use right here in the United States helping people who are out of work and whose unemployment compensation checks may soon or already have run out. Instead of ANOTHER vacation for the all-time record holder of presidential vacations, it would be nice if he would stay home and send a business delegation to Asia probably for far less than TWO million dollars a day; don't you agree?