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GOP ridicules White House tour shutdown
The Daily Caller
Neil Munro
3/6/2013
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GOP leaders and staffers are ridiculing the White House’s decision to shut down the high-profile tours of the White House, even as the administration continues pre-sequester spending on other projects, such as presidential golf outings and new uniforms for airport security agents.
“Canceling white house tours is childish and dishonest [Obamas’s] golf weekend in florida cost enough to keep the white house open for months,” said a tweet from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. “Obama should be challenged … this is silly and demeaning.”
“White House cancels tours post sequester,” said a tweet from Brad Dayspring, a Senate spokesman.
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“Now I guess the only way to get inside Obama WH is to give $500,000 to OFA,” he said, evoking the current scandal over donations to President Barack Obama’s Organizing for Action lobby group.
“Want to reschedule your canceled WH tour? That’ll be $500,000,” said a message from the National Republican Congressional Committee.
The committee also tweeted out a quote from the White House’s website: “[T]he halls of gov’t are not reserved for a privileged few, and the [White House] should be no exception.”
Obama suggested a sequester during the 2011 budget talk in exchange for a large increase in the federal government’s credit-card. The federal debt is now $16.6 trillion, up $6 trillion from Obama’s first inauguration.
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View the complete article at:
http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/06/go...tour-shutdown/
The Daily Caller
Neil Munro
3/6/2013
Excerpt:
GOP leaders and staffers are ridiculing the White House’s decision to shut down the high-profile tours of the White House, even as the administration continues pre-sequester spending on other projects, such as presidential golf outings and new uniforms for airport security agents.
“Canceling white house tours is childish and dishonest [Obamas’s] golf weekend in florida cost enough to keep the white house open for months,” said a tweet from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. “Obama should be challenged … this is silly and demeaning.”
“White House cancels tours post sequester,” said a tweet from Brad Dayspring, a Senate spokesman.
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“Now I guess the only way to get inside Obama WH is to give $500,000 to OFA,” he said, evoking the current scandal over donations to President Barack Obama’s Organizing for Action lobby group.
“Want to reschedule your canceled WH tour? That’ll be $500,000,” said a message from the National Republican Congressional Committee.
The committee also tweeted out a quote from the White House’s website: “[T]he halls of gov’t are not reserved for a privileged few, and the [White House] should be no exception.”
Obama suggested a sequester during the 2011 budget talk in exchange for a large increase in the federal government’s credit-card. The federal debt is now $16.6 trillion, up $6 trillion from Obama’s first inauguration.
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View the complete article at:
http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/06/go...tour-shutdown/