After sequestration, does the president dare tee off?
“Canceling White House tours is childish and dishonest,” Mr. Gingrich said on Twitter, citing a recent golf vacation the president took to the Floridian Yacht and Golf Club resort with a handful of friends and his Secret Service entourage. “The golf weekend in Florida cost enough to keep the White House open for months.” …
But the budget cuts known as sequestration are going to have an outsize effect on government workers who, like Mr. Obama, get their paycheck from the federal treasury. Some will be furloughed as often as once a week. Others will lose overtime, forcing them to cancel vacations or trim household expenses. …
So the president’s White House advisers are going to have to confront the question of how, or whether, to adjust his family’s activities. Should they go to Martha’s Vineyard? Will Michelle Obama and the couple’s daughters avoid trips like the ski vacation they took to Aspen last month? And what about the golf that Mr. Obama frequently plays at the nearby Joint Base Andrews?
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Sure, why not? It’s not as if the media or the frothing monkeys who voted for Bark will actually criticize the man wasting millions on his little golf outings while the rest of us nervously eye our dwindling bank accounts.
Bishop on March 7, 2013 at 10:07 AM
Won’t faze him or Michelle in the least, and the NYT will just whine about not being invited….
JFKY on March 7, 2013 at 10:08 AM
I’m thinking Obama’s “Chicken Little” act and Rand Paul’s filibuster have wounded his popularity. He might not be as immune from criticism.
AcidReflux on March 7, 2013 at 10:08 AM
Nope. And isn’t it glorious?!
Bob's Kid on March 7, 2013 at 10:10 AM
He’ll just keep trucking along, my dear NYT, and you’ll be right there covering for him and making excuses the whole time.
Good Lt on March 7, 2013 at 10:11 AM
That’s why he quit doing golf outings early on you leftist hack a** kissers. Gawd I loathe the NYT….
Tim Zank on March 7, 2013 at 10:12 AM
Why not? Who’s going to call him on it?
Washington Nearsider on March 7, 2013 at 10:13 AM
President Bush racked up ~40 rounds of golf in 8 years.
President Obama is well over 100 rounds of golf in 4.
Washington Nearsider on March 7, 2013 at 10:13 AM
Bwahahahahaha! Good one, NY Times!
NavyMustang on March 7, 2013 at 10:14 AM
it also has to have hurt the mainstream media…their culpability abounds…
hillsoftx on March 7, 2013 at 10:14 AM
Are you kidding me? This is the same man who jetted off to a Vegas fundraiser the morning after a terrorist attack that left 4 Americans dead(on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 no less).
Doughboy on March 7, 2013 at 10:17 AM
Well NYT, at this point, what difference does it make?
You won’t call him out for it…you’re more likely to compliment his golf swing and new putting technique that he learned from Tiger.
HumpBot Salvation on March 7, 2013 at 10:24 AM
Let them
eat cakeputt out.-His Majesty King Barack Hussein Obama I
cyclown on March 7, 2013 at 10:27 AM
A better question would be “does the MSM report it?”
Gatsu on March 7, 2013 at 10:29 AM
The article does not mention the fact that Bush STOPPED playing golf after the criticism.
djl130 on March 7, 2013 at 10:30 AM
Of course he will. He’ll do it to so when it’s pointed out, he’ll point to them to say “See how petty they are? We’re in a crisis and they want to pick on me.”
Mimzey on March 7, 2013 at 10:30 AM
Of course King3Putt will. And the staff at the NYT will wash his balls for him.
HumpBot Salvation on March 7, 2013 at 10:32 AM
The pathetic Obysmal economic policy has cost American workers jobs for months/years. Why should government workers be exempt from belt-tightening in this ever-shrinking economy. There is no more money for the charade of big government. Obysmal has not a clue about prioritizing for efficiency.
onlineanalyst on March 7, 2013 at 10:34 AM
You and other media bootlickers got him reelected–why would he care?
melle1228 on March 7, 2013 at 10:43 AM
Lavishly tongue bathe them and cuddle them and kiss them and generally treat them better than their own significant others.
Whatever is important to 0bama is worthy of anything the press can do to make things easier for their god on earth. And they do it willingly and with love.
cozmo on March 7, 2013 at 10:49 AM
Well, actually we do when the cost of a single golf outing is a month of White House tours.
unclesmrgol on March 7, 2013 at 10:56 AM
Better question is do you dare report it when he does, NYT?
By the way, no mention of filibuster on CBS Radio News this morning.
Hey, remember how the police forces protecting the public from the forces of criminal violence were once referred to as the “Thin Blue Line“? I propose we dub the MSM the “Thick Brown Line“. They too are protecting the public – from knowing too much about things Democrats don’t want them to.
drunyan8315 on March 7, 2013 at 11:01 AM
I get the feeling the NYT is really saying, please, My King, do not play golf! We can’t cover for you forever!
PattyJ on March 7, 2013 at 11:11 AM
FORE!
Steve Eggleston on March 7, 2013 at 11:36 AM
It’s been, what a whole MONTH since Hussein, Mooch, and the little moochers have been off on Vacay.
I’d say they are overdue.
wildcat72 on March 7, 2013 at 11:53 AM
Yep, they are “messaging” Barry that the optics of doing so will be so bad the NYT won’t be ABLE to cover for him.
wildcat72 on March 7, 2013 at 11:54 AM
He teas the land off, always.
Schadenfreude on March 7, 2013 at 12:33 PM
Note that the tone of the article is a pity party for poor Prince Precious having to curtail his recreation to satisfy those troglodyte right wing meanies.
Dr. Carlo Lombardi on March 7, 2013 at 1:10 PM