White House For Rent
If you happen to have a spare $34,000 lying around and want to bowl a few games with your pals, why not do it at the White House?
That’s right folks, the same people who got elected on the notion that it was Republicans who were selling access to the President and allowing money to run Government and they were going to drain the swamp in Washington, have opened up the White House to private fundraisers and rich partisans who happened to give generously to the right political groups.
During his first nine months in office, President Obama has quietly rewarded scores of top Democratic donors with VIP access to the White House, private briefings with administration advisers and invitations to important speeches and town-hall meetings.
High-dollar fundraisers have been promised access to senior White House officials in exchange for pledges to donate $30,400 personally or to bundle $300,000 in contributions ahead of the 2010 midterm elections, according to internal Democratic National Committee documents obtained by The Washington Times.
One top donor described in an interview with The Times being given a birthday visit to the Oval Office. Another was allowed use of a White House-complex bowling alley for his family. Bundlers closest to the president were invited to watch a movie in the red-walled theater in the basement of the presidential mansion.
Obama invited his top New York bundler, UBS Americas CEO Robert Wolf, to golf with him during the president’s Martha’s Vineyard vacation in August. At least 39 donors and fundraisers also were treated to a lavish White House reception on St. Patrick’s Day, where the fountains on the North and South Lawns were dyed green, photos and video reviewed by The Times and CBS News also show.
Who says that the Republican party is only looking out for the rich? Oh yeah, that would be Obama and the Democrats.
Click here to find a link to the whole story from the Washington Times. They happened to get their hands on an internal Democratic National COmmittee memo.
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