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2013-03-23 Government

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Posted by Fred 2013-03-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11124 views ] Top

#1 "Good thing we have the sequester ..." > LOL.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-03-23 00:05|| 2013-03-23 00:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Common sense would say that putting him up at the US Embassy would be the right thing to do. But no common sense.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2013-03-23 03:01|| 2013-03-23 03:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe he should stay at one of those Youth Hostels where everybody bunks together and shares a single bathroom? Think about ithes the VPOTUS. Getragrip.

Posted by DepotGuy 2013-03-23 09:52|| 2013-03-23 09:52|| Front Page Top

#4 It great to be king (in waiting).

Meanwhile someone else who's in a position of authority and responsibility demonstrates a different sense of self importance.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-03-23 09:56|| 2013-03-23 09:56|| Front Page Top

#5 A one week stay at a hotel appropriate for his position. However many rooms his entourage required plus the rest of the floor and at least adjacent rooms above and below for security, at a bit under rack rate. It sounds normal to me. The real question is 'Was this trip necessary?' Same as should be asked of all such trips.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-03-23 10:22|| 2013-03-23 10:22|| Front Page Top

#6 AP is right. Why not have distinguished guest quarters at the embassies or State residential compounds in all of the EU and OECD countries? That way you save on the hotel and more than half half the entourage (use DoS security, comms, medical staff, bomb dogs, etc). He's still got to bring the press flack, and some Secret Service, but you could load those cats in a business jet. Heck, in the more heavily visited embassies, you could have an armored limo on station. Probably cheaper to have 20-30 of those than all of the C-17 flights needed to move the damn thing all over the world. It would pay for itself in less than a year.

Posted by 11A5S 2013-03-23 11:03|| 2013-03-23 11:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Stayed at the 'Churchill' did he? FLOTUS is going to be very angry over that.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-03-23 11:05|| 2013-03-23 11:05|| Front Page Top

#8 It great to be king (in waiting).

More like the court Jester.

Posted by Skidmark 2013-03-23 11:15|| 2013-03-23 11:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Anytime someone proposes cutting federal spending by so much as a nickel, the left-wing response is: "You heartless bastard! Don't you know how much that nickel means to millions of Americans living in poverty?" OK. But let's apply the same standard to how federal money is spent: "Biden, you heartless bastard! Don't you know how many starving American children $$459,388 would feed?"

Posted by Matt 2013-03-23 11:23|| 2013-03-23 11:23|| Front Page Top

#10 I thought there we had embassadors in London. And since when does the VP need to make decisions of any great international importance? The American private sector has available to the politicos teleconferencing, telephones, cell phones, emails, twitter, myspace, skype, facebook! What a joke and excessive pompus group of knuckledragging idiots this third world regime is.

Posted by Whiper Cromoper8412 2013-03-23 14:30|| 2013-03-23 14:30|| Front Page Top

#11 The only international traveling the VP should be making is to attend official state funerals.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-03-23 19:03|| 2013-03-23 19:03|| Front Page Top

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