January 26, 2010
— Dave in Texas Obama will freeze salaries of top White House officials.
U.S. President Barack Obama will freeze the salaries of senior White House officials and other top political appointees for savings of $4 million in fiscal 2011, a senior administration official said on Tuesday.
Fiscal responsibility. It's like a fevah, sweeping DC.
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Posted by: Peaches at January 26, 2010 05:26 PM (9Wv2j)
Are you fucking kidding me? The cap on non-discretionary spending was a joke, here he's just shitting in our cereal.
Posted by: Jeff M at January 26, 2010 05:26 PM (8P3+x)
Posted by: Max Power at January 26, 2010 05:26 PM (q177U)
Posted by: GregInSeattle at January 26, 2010 05:27 PM (B5cM9)
Posted by: Barack Obama, President Guy at January 26, 2010 05:28 PM (i/gRH)
Posted by: jcjimi at January 26, 2010 05:29 PM (XSikc)
Posted by: TexasJew at January 26, 2010 05:29 PM (dcKUM)
Posted by: kefka at January 26, 2010 05:29 PM (n1uMU)
Posted by: Peaches at January 26, 2010 05:30 PM (9Wv2j)
Posted by: mystry at January 26, 2010 05:31 PM (kmgIE)
Posted by: Barack Obama, President Guy at January 26, 2010 05:32 PM (i/gRH)
Posted by: Rodent Freikorps at January 26, 2010 05:32 PM (dQdrY)
Fuck him.
Posted by: Jeff M at January 26, 2010 05:32 PM (8P3+x)
Posted by: TexasJew at January 26, 2010 05:33 PM (dcKUM)
Hahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: GarandFan at January 26, 2010 05:33 PM (ZQBnQ)
Posted by: Methos at January 26, 2010 05:33 PM (Xsi7M)
Posted by: DavidJ at January 26, 2010 05:33 PM (cTfiG)
Posted by: Senator at January 26, 2010 05:34 PM (XSikc)
Don't MO's groomers get hazard pay?
Posted by: Rodent Freikorps at January 26, 2010 05:34 PM (dQdrY)
Posted by: Truman North at January 26, 2010 05:34 PM (FjC5u)
If this works we are as stupid as they think we are.
Posted by: kefka at January 26, 2010 05:34 PM (n1uMU)
Anyone can buy a truck. Savin' money is hard. And savin' moneh' is mah policeh'"
"Did I slip into the lingo?"
"Just then?"
Posted by: Barack O'Savings at January 26, 2010 05:35 PM (Pj1fB)
Posted by: TexasJew at January 26, 2010 05:35 PM (dcKUM)
I've also ordered the WH chef to switch to store brand mustard.
Bravo, Mr. President. Krogers Grey Poupon is one helluva sacrifice.
Posted by: huerfano at January 26, 2010 05:36 PM (kJLH9)
On the other hand it's real world experience for them since most private businesses have frozen or reduced salaries
Posted by: kbdabear at January 26, 2010 05:36 PM (sYxEE)
Posted by: Wigglesworth at January 26, 2010 05:36 PM (dUOK+)
$3.88 billion per day since September 28, 2007
Posted by: Max Power at January 26, 2010 05:36 PM (q177U)
Dear God, what next?!?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 26, 2010 05:37 PM (UOM48)
Shit, they're going after James O'Keefe, he got arrested.
Posted by: Dang Straights at January 26, 2010 09:35 PM (IKRb6)
Jeeze - that's old news. Don't you watch Rachel Mancow? That turned her vibrator up to "11".
Posted by: TexasJew at January 26, 2010 05:37 PM (dcKUM)
Posted by: mystry at January 26, 2010 05:37 PM (kmgIE)
539 years of saving this much every fucking 365 day. That's how tiny this is.
Posted by: Wigglesworth at January 26, 2010 05:37 PM (dUOK+)
Posted by: T at January 26, 2010 05:38 PM (z9Awt)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 26, 2010 05:38 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Wigglesworth at January 26, 2010 09:36 PM (dUOK+)
Correction: "I took it out of your pant pocket."
Posted by: TexasJew at January 26, 2010 05:38 PM (dcKUM)
Sorry, not good enough.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 26, 2010 05:38 PM (bgcml)
Posted by: Obi Wan Kenobi at January 26, 2010 05:38 PM (i/gRH)
Except for the fact that the average gov't salary is over $70,000 compared with the average private sector salary of $40,000. And I don't believe that takes into account the outrageous discrepancy in all kinds of benefits.
Posted by: Peaches at January 26, 2010 05:38 PM (9Wv2j)
Posted by: Olliander at January 26, 2010 05:38 PM (UdCPj)
Will Peter Orszag now have to forego his weekly goat gland injections to grow a penis?
Has he been fathering these out of wedlock babies orally? Apparently, you can do that.
Posted by: huerfano at January 26, 2010 05:40 PM (kJLH9)
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at January 26, 2010 05:40 PM (GUxTi)
Posted by: Truman North at January 26, 2010 05:40 PM (FjC5u)
Posted by: Ellie Gray at January 26, 2010 05:40 PM (JZa9d)
Let's see him cut the staffing by that amount, just so that he and his buddies begin to understand what the rest of America is feeling like. Layoffs, 10% of the folks who make more than $100K.
Posted by: Popcorn at January 26, 2010 05:40 PM (OOehk)
Posted by: newrouter at January 26, 2010 05:41 PM (bEZJ+)
Shit, they're going after James O'Keefe, he got arrested.
Posted by: Dang Straights at January 26, 2010 09:35 PM
Well, fuck, of course they arrested him. He broke the damn law. Then in a display of weapons-grade stupidity immediately started talking to the FBI agent about it. I feel bad for him but we don't need such colossally, mind-bendingly stupid fucks on our side. I sincerely hope he has a brilliant attorney and gets out of this with a slap but...damn. What the fuck?
Posted by: Senator at January 26, 2010 05:41 PM (XSikc)
Posted by: Cheri at January 26, 2010 05:41 PM (llSaz)
Your welcome.
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at January 26, 2010 05:41 PM (DIYmd)
I can't even wrap my head around how fucking irrelevant that is.
Seriously! What percentage of his colossal spending spree does $4 million represent?
Posted by: Dang at January 26, 2010 05:41 PM (UA4gE)
Posted by: Dang Straights at January 26, 2010 09:35 PM (IKRb6)
So...think he'll go for the same sentence McDermont got? Namely a $60k fine?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 26, 2010 05:41 PM (bgcml)
This ranks up there in stupidville along with McCain's endless earmark shit after he wants to slap a Cap n' Trade multitrillion dollar tax on us.
Do these dumb fuckers bother to buy a calculator, or do they just pray that we can't count?
Posted by: TexasJew at January 26, 2010 05:42 PM (dcKUM)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 26, 2010 05:42 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: RushBabe at January 26, 2010 05:42 PM (LKkE8)
Posted by: rplat at January 26, 2010 05:43 PM (G1ArL)
A lady on the Rush/Steyn show today suggested that instead of yelling out something disrepectful like "You Lie" when Obama lies in the SoTU, that they should break out in hysterical laughter. I'd like to see Barry read from a teleprompter after a couple of episodes of roaring laughter erupts from the audience. Of course if it happens only during the lies, the address will last into next month.
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at January 26, 2010 05:43 PM (r1h5M)
O'Keefe, the "conservative activist," led the top of the hour news on ABC Radio News and not in any mincing, balanced way
O'Keefe describes himself as a progressive radical who follows Alinsky's rules, not that any news organization will take notice of that.
Posted by: huerfano at January 26, 2010 05:43 PM (kJLH9)
Posted by: scottythrust at January 26, 2010 05:43 PM (oBJkk)
btw, what's with the comments about pudding and dipping around here? i dont get it. Posted by: davey-
You dip your balls in the pudding.
Posted by: Z Ryan at January 26, 2010 05:44 PM (cMo6P)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 26, 2010 09:42 PM (UOM4
And turn the scanner up to "Mutate".
Posted by: TexasJew at January 26, 2010 05:44 PM (dcKUM)
Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2010 05:44 PM (qk198)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 26, 2010 05:44 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Peaches at January 26, 2010 05:45 PM (9Wv2j)
Do you realize that his $250 billion savings over ten years with his 'freeze' is less than one-third of the Non-Stimulus Stimulus?
This joker maxes out his credit cards and thinks that using a coupon for lunch out is being 'frugal.'
Posted by: Slow Joe Biden at January 26, 2010 05:45 PM (MMC8r)
so he's like CJ? he was useful to us once but overall he's an a-hole?
Posted by: YRM at January 26, 2010 05:46 PM (MxqA5)
Posted by: deadman at January 26, 2010 05:46 PM (Zf0v/)
Has he been fathering these out of wedlock babies orally? Apparently, you can do that.
His wife says he tried to sell that rash with that excuse too.
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at January 26, 2010 05:47 PM (r1h5M)
Posted by: Rodent Freikorps at January 26, 2010 05:48 PM (dQdrY)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 26, 2010 05:48 PM (UOM48)
56btw, what's with the comments about pudding and dipping around here?i dont get it. Posted by: davey
When something good happens, you want to dip your balls in it. Right? Well we do. And what would feel better, if you were literally going to dip your balls into a substance, than having pudding as the substance you were going to dip your balls in? Nothing. That's what. So pudding it is. Let 'em soak.
FYI - Your right ball may swell, your left ball may diminish in size. It looks cool. Kinda like your junk in 3D.
Have you seen Avatar?
Posted by: Dang at January 26, 2010 05:48 PM (UA4gE)
Posted by: Redneck, teabaggin' bitch at January 26, 2010 05:48 PM (GXLjK)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 26, 2010 05:49 PM (DuTwh)
A freeze prevents things from going up, AND DOWN.
Posted by: ParisParamus at January 26, 2010 05:49 PM (NPtVh)
Posted by: YRM at January 26, 2010 09:46 PM (MxqA5)
Yeah. Enough of this crap. He'll have his day in court.
Can you imagine the slimey shit going on in Miss Piggy's office?
Posted by: TexasJew at January 26, 2010 05:49 PM (dcKUM)
Posted by: Thea at January 26, 2010 05:50 PM (/3dGX)
Posted by: Peaches at January 26, 2010 05:50 PM (9Wv2j)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 26, 2010 09:42 PM (UOM4
Even of you greased her hips, there's no way to get her through a full body scanner.
Posted by: conscious, but rambling incoherently at January 26, 2010 05:50 PM (Vu6sl)
so he's like CJ? he was useful to us once but overall he's an a-hole?
I think people have been misinterpreting his motives. It's possible he just doesn't like dishonesty, like that of ACORN and Landrieu. It's also possible he just wanted to be around Hannah Giles.
Posted by: huerfano at January 26, 2010 05:51 PM (kJLH9)
I think I'm getting why the Republicans are so low key.
Would you want to get handed the keys to this train wreck in 2010?
Posted by: Rodent Freikorps at January 26, 2010 05:51 PM (dQdrY)
53 What's the national unemployment? 10% or so?
Let's see him cut the staffing by that amount, just so that he and his buddies begin to understand what the rest of America is feeling like. Layoffs, 10% of the folks who make more than $100K.
THREAD WINNER
Posted by: Truman North at January 26, 2010 05:52 PM (FjC5u)
What?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 26, 2010 05:52 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: TexasJew at January 26, 2010 09:49 PM (dcKUM)
hey, the dude was stupid; do I not like her? hell no I don't like her espc. since she looks a little like my ex (as does Gilibrand), but you don't do stupid shit like that
Posted by: YRM at January 26, 2010 05:52 PM (MxqA5)
Posted by: Al Gore at January 26, 2010 05:52 PM (DIYmd)
Hmmm.
The deficit is 1.3 trillion.
Hmmm.
Saved 4. Spent 1.3.
Hmmm.
Saved 4. Spent 1.3.
Hm. Hmm. Hmmmmm.
4 is larger than 1.3.
I think.
Hmmmm. Hmm. Ummm. Hmm.
That .... means .... that means we're saved! Barack did it! With his giant brain and glistening pecs! He DID IT!!!
HE DID IT!!!!!
4 is larger than 1.3, right?
Posted by: Typical Moonbat Thought Process at January 26, 2010 05:53 PM (MXP2z)
97 Michelle could save a bundle by cutting out her "ladies in waiting" staff. What more does she need than a social secretary, hair and makeup stylist, and back waxer...
What?
Posted by: Jane D'oh
A toenail grinder.
Posted by: Dang at January 26, 2010 05:53 PM (UA4gE)
Posted by: Thea at January 26, 2010 05:54 PM (/3dGX)
You think thats bad wait until you find out about the hobos and the scandis. And don't even ask about the chicken.
Posted by: Al Gore at January 26, 2010 05:55 PM (DIYmd)
Posted by: huerfano at January 26, 2010 09:51 PM (kJLH9)
I get your point, he might have thought he was going to get something big on her like w/ the ACORN thing but he fucked it up big, maybe he'll be redeemed in court but so far it looks like he fucked up big
Posted by: YRM at January 26, 2010 05:55 PM (MxqA5)
Posted by: conscious, but rambling incoherently at January 26, 2010 05:55 PM (Vu6sl)
Posted by: TexasJew at January 26, 2010 09:49 PM (dcKUM)
hey, the dude was stupid; do I not like her? hell no I don't like her espc. since she looks a little like my ex (as does Gilibrand), but you don't do stupid shit like that
Posted by: YRM at January 26, 2010 09:52 PM (MxqA5)
I don't know what he did. I'm not the Jury. That's someone else's job. But I know what Obama is doing, and that it the thread topic.
Posted by: TexasJew at January 26, 2010 05:57 PM (dcKUM)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 26, 2010 05:58 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Dang at January 26, 2010 09:53 PM (UA4gE)
Hey, talon polishing is hazardous duty.
Posted by: Rodent Freikorps at January 26, 2010 05:58 PM (dQdrY)
The Republicans were terrible because they spent like drunken Sailors, but the Democrats are great because they spend like a drunken Navy.
Obama defended the stimulus pork by explaining that the purpose of the stimulus was to spend money; now he's freezing the budget so as not to spend money.
I'm beginning to think that Obama's not the brilliant tactician I thought he was.
Posted by: Eric Von Zipper at January 26, 2010 06:01 PM (gHjXk)
Posted by: Thea at January 26, 2010 06:02 PM (/3dGX)
102 Wait...he's "saving" 4 million by not giving raises? That's kind of creative accounting, isn't it? My husband hasn't had a raise in three years. Bastards.
Mrs. North saves me money all the time by buying $300 handbags instead of the $700 ones she really wants, or whatever garbage accessory it is this week.
Posted by: Truman North at January 26, 2010 06:03 PM (FjC5u)
Posted by: Obama's Brain at January 26, 2010 06:03 PM (Vu6sl)
Posted by: K~Bob at January 26, 2010 06:03 PM (9b6FB)
@56 btw, what's with the comments about pudding and dipping around here?i dont get it. Posted by: davey
@85 When something good happens, you want to dip your balls in it. Right? Well we do. And what would feel better, if you were literally going to dip your balls into a substance, than having pudding as the substance you were going to dip your balls in? Nothing. That's what. So pudding it is. Let 'em soak.
FYI - Your right ball may swell, your left ball may diminish in size. It looks cool. Kinda like your junk in 3D.
Have you seen Avatar?
So. they dipped their balls in pudding in Avatar? I still don't get it. And if that's what it's all about, what's in it for the girls?
Posted by: anginak at January 26, 2010 06:03 PM (rvknr)
Is she "okay looking" or the most glamorous, fashionable, First Lady evah?
Personally, I'll absolutely settle for okay looking. But the MSM worships her "ladyship" to the point of nausea. So she's fair game. Plus, her attitude towards this country is less than admirable.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 26, 2010 06:05 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: AmishDude at January 26, 2010 06:09 PM (T0NGe)
Posted by: The Hand at January 26, 2010 06:10 PM (e7v1M)
Posted by: cthulhu at January 26, 2010 06:11 PM (u+gbs)
When Obama spends, he uses a hatchet, a club, a jackhammer, a MOAB. when he saves, he uses a tiny little nano-scalpel.
And this isn't even a cut. It's a freeze. The expense didn't actually go down, it simply didn't go up.
this is the mother of all bullshit-democrat whiney spending cuts. It's so insulting and ridiculous. Sarah Palin probably saved more via ebaying Alaskan State crap.
Posted by: Wigglesworth at January 26, 2010 06:12 PM (dUOK+)
Yet again, more evidence that conservatives make the best-looking candidates. Adn she's a paratroper from the 82nd airborne! Sweet! And not in a Lindsey Graham kinda way, either, S.C.
Posted by: RushBabe at January 26, 2010 06:12 PM (LKkE8)
Posted by: anginak at January 26, 2010 10:03 PM (rvknr)
I'm thinking the pudding is symbolic. Or in the case of the hopelessly single (which fits the profile here) proxy. The happy couples here don't need pudding. Except some of us who just like it. It's all relative.
Posted by: K~Bob at January 26, 2010 06:13 PM (9b6FB)
Posted by: Holger at January 26, 2010 06:15 PM (8NGHm)
I mean, the way the real world uses the word "savings", not the way politicians lie and misuse words.
Posted by: Gekkobear at January 26, 2010 06:21 PM (KBg64)
Posted by: Gen. Sir Harry Flashman, VC at January 26, 2010 06:23 PM (zxPLu)
Doesn't mean squat if they're already making good money.
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at January 26, 2010 06:26 PM (8PFPH)
Posted by: Farmer Joe at January 26, 2010 06:45 PM (e8dsT)
4
That's exactly the problem. Obama thinks we are stupid enough to be dazzled by meaningless gimmicks like this. It's elitist left wing condescension that is really beginning to annoy the American people.
Posted by: Reggie1971 at January 26, 2010 06:56 PM (xIqkW)
How stupid does he think we are?
About as stupid as John McCain, who whine and bitches and moans and goes ape-sh*t over stupid little $300,000 earmarks while $1.5 trillion is being flushed down the toilet.
Posted by: Bender from D.C. at January 26, 2010 06:58 PM (802+s)
Posted by: curious at January 26, 2010 07:00 PM (p302b)
Posted by: Bender at January 26, 2010 07:01 PM (802+s)
Posted by: Ken at January 26, 2010 07:05 PM (H0wvU)
Posted by: torabora at January 26, 2010 07:06 PM (CH5ak)
Posted by: curious at January 26, 2010 07:09 PM (p302b)
Exactly. A freeze is not savings. It's just not an increase. You're still spending the same amount of money, so you're not saving anything at all.
Posted by: Mandy P. at January 26, 2010 07:11 PM (MK6Kx)
"So. they dipped their balls in pudding in
Avatar? I still don't get it. And if that's what it's all about,
what's in it for the girls?
Posted by: anginak at January 26, 2010 10:03 PM (rvknr)"
The super sekret picture stash.
Posted by: curious at January 26, 2010 07:13 PM (p302b)
Its like Obama is Robert Mugabe except without the good management ability.
Posted by: Purple Avenger at January 26, 2010 07:18 PM (e7v1M)
What PA said.
I would like to go on record and say that I am so very pleased that our president is showing his true colors, what with the salary freezes and the conservative fiscals and all that other fun stuff. I bet he trades his SUV in next week for a Neon, or maybe one of those biodiesel trucks...yeah, a biodiesel truck. Next month he'll start showing up to town halls in flannel and old Levi's and a DeKalb hat...yeah, a DeKalb hat. He's going to start showing us that yes indeed presidenting is hard, hard work...and he's just the man for the job, what with his stunning, workhorse like pecs and all...yeah.
Posted by: unknown jane at January 26, 2010 07:25 PM (5/yRG)
Posted by: Anton Levay at January 26, 2010 07:35 PM (vCeQR)
This guy has been pissing down the nation's leg for so long I'm amazed he hasn't passed out from dehydration.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at January 26, 2010 07:49 PM (swuwV)
They were taken.
Good going guys!
(didn't know about the rachel msnbc vibrator to number 11 though regarding kid getting jailed for taping senator's telephone).
my job here is done.
i'm off to bake a cake.
Posted by: kay at January 26, 2010 08:05 PM (TW1NB)
He fooled enough people in November of 2008...
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at January 26, 2010 08:52 PM (8PFPH)
White House officials. hahahahahaha
What he should do is fire ALL of the "staff" for his wife who holds no official constitutional positition and ALL of his commie Czars who hold no constitutional position, and then we can talk about freezing the salaries of the rest of his "staff".
Posted by: Vic at January 26, 2010 11:27 PM (QrA9E)
Posted by: sydneyj at January 27, 2010 12:11 AM (wogbZ)
Posted by: Nebelwerfer at January 27, 2010 04:28 AM (icjil)
Welcome to the world of Democrat budgeting. When they talk about spending cuts, they normally mean, "We were going to increase spending across the board by 10%. Instead, we are going to only raise it 5%. That means we actually cut spending by 5%. You're welcome, American taxpayer."
Posted by: Steve L. at January 27, 2010 04:40 AM (Gkhxf)
Posted by: Ferly Juliansyah at April 14, 2011 01:11 AM (iTWw3)
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Posted by: Dang Straights at January 26, 2010 05:26 PM (IKRb6)