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Republicans are slamming the decision to have the party as “insensitive.”
“This really shows how unserious he is,” Republican Rep. Joe Walsh, a fellow Chicagoan, tells Newsmax exclusively. “I realize it’s his birthday, but he is a president who has said he doesn’t know if social security checks will go out that day.
“If that’s the case, I cannot believe he will be having a big party that very day.”
Obama said on Tuesday that he cannot guarantee that social security checks will go out from August 3 unless a deal can be reached on raising the nation’s $14.3 trillion debt limit. “There may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it,” he told CBS’ Scott Pelley.
Unless the deal is reached, government services across the board will be cut and in many cases closed down.
“My first thought was that he will have to fly to Chicago before the third because I can’t imagine airports will be open,” said Walsh. “And he’ll have to have a huge supply of candles because the lights are going to go out.
“I am amazed he will be able to have a party at all.”
Walsh said he hopes to be in Chicago on Aug. 3 himself to be with his family in case the calamity that Obama has warned about comes to fruition. “I just doubt I’ll get an invitation to the party,” he said.
Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson is expected to perform at the birthday bash at the historic Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. The event will be one of the president’s biggest fundraisers of the year. Publicity literature featuring a red, white and blue Happy Birthday logo has already been produced.
The event will be “multi-tiered,” the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The Hudson concert would cost $50; admission to the party $200; a premium seat $1,000; a souvenir photo with the president $10,000; and VIP seating and dinner with Obama $38,500.
Another GOP Congressman, Louie Gohmert of Texas was incredulous about the timing. “That’d be as crazy as setting up golf games in the middle of going after Osama bin Laden,” he said. “I’m sure he wouldn’t do something like that – or maybe he would.”
Obama has been leading contentious talks all week with leaders of both parties in the House and Senate to avoid the August 2 deadline. On Friday he warned of financial “Armageddon” if a deal cannot be reached.
ATC Says: He has done nothing but play politics with the debt ceiling and has shown his unwillingness to work with Republicans unless the deal is done his way and on his terms....He uses scare tactics to scare the sheeple and fails as a leader to take the lead on the negotiations and demands his subordinates to come up with a viable plan that he himself has not produced. For two years now, even when the democrats controlled both houses of CON-gress and the White House have failed to pass a budget of their own and it is because of that and by their very design we find ourselves down to the wire as we are! Everything this President has done to this point has shrunk job growth and swelled our deficit and Unemployment rate! It has even been accounted that he has been quoted as stating tempted to do it on his own (raise the Debt Ceiling that is) without Congressional approval by the August 2nd deadline. We can't have something as frivolous as the United States Defaulting on its Debt interfere with Imposter President's Birthday Party and re-election fundraiser now would we?
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