Transition alert: Obama's change agenda on-hold til you pay DNC debts

The Ticket reported, jokingly, the other day about the latest Barack Obama fundraising appeal.

He's the fellow who raised way more than $605 million and, would you believe it, won the presidential election campaign to bring real change to Washington.

As an important part of changing the money culture of Washington he was asking for another $30 donation from everyone on the e-mail list.

It seems that in addition to his 6/10ths of a billion dollars to move into the White House, the Democratic National Committee spent way more than the $100 million in cash it had raised.

In fact, it took out "substantial loans."

Well, it turns out now, the DNC's debts are far worse than originally imagined. Today, Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe sent another urgent e-mail to supporters seeking at least another $30.

Here's what he said:

"We'll get to work transforming this country. But first, we need to take care of the DNC."

Did we hear that right? Now that Obama's the president-elect, the top priority is the Democratic National Committee?

To drive home the point elsewhere in the same e-mail Plouffe adds: "Before we do anything else, we need to pay for this winning strategy."

Don't worry, you still get the Victory T-shirt for this $30. But it sounds like pretty much everything else is on hold. This change stuff is looking to be an expensive process, even before it gets started.

--Andrew Malcolm

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Comments

[LogicalUS]

Can anybody imagine the "howls" of protest from the MSM, if the Republicans had spent so much money to win the Presidency? Ominious stories of the sale of power would be a nightly occurrence but since Obama spent a trillion dollars from sources all over the world everything is okay.

[LizardPeople]

Note that the price of the T-Shirt goes up if you have given larger amounts in the past. My T-Shirt was $250.

[akgr]

Are there even any LA Times readers who are surprised by this? Tax and spend Dems over-spending on record donations from who-the-f-knows-where. Isn't that pretty much the party line? Spend it like you stole it!

[Mayu]

So it's true... the only change that is coming from Obama is the change from our pockets... So much for his 95% taxpayers tax breaks. (which according to the AP is already being backed off on) So much for his "spread the wealth" So much for our failing economy.

Not only do we have to buy out banks (Pushed by pelosi yet they still seem to blame it on conservatives), and we have to buy out the auto industry (again pushed by Pelosi but they'll blame it on conservatives) but now we have to bail out the democratic national committee???

But he'll get a pass. They'll find a way to blame the DNC's overspending on Bush. He's the messiah after all. he can do no wrong.

So what if his change is the change from our pockets! he promised change and he's delivering it! (of course it's from our banks, or, is that the government's banks cause aren't they buying banks out now instead of buying the bad morgages as originally planned?)

[You Were Warned]

I gladly gave another $30.00 (the new lower Dem cost of true ownership of the new American Presidential Administration & Congress by the American people compared of course to the RepubliKKKan loss of 4,000+ American lives and our total economy and complete rape of the US Treasury like the last 8 yrs.), to the party that cares what happens to our country.

You foolish Repukes...You are now insignificant, time to shut up as you have been banished to the wilderness for the next 30 yrs. we can only hope. The American voter has spoken.....Take it like men & women standing up. Shhhhhhhhh.

Millions of us donated, built that Dem takover, perfected the Obama railroad that plowed you under like months old waste product left in the fields to ferment & rot so we can grow a new America. Enjoy your 3.5% tax hike if you happen to make annual incomes in the top 5% and quit yer whinin' like the babies you are....Ol' Uncle George "Dumbya" Bullshit & his puppeteer Dickhead Cheney exempted you from paying for his dirty wars and the rape of the economy over the last 8 yrs....but it is high time you now start to pay the piper.

And I don't mean Sister Sarah's Piper either, unless you wish to also buy her another super high priced handbag fools.

[glsmarlton]

Ahhh--and the McCain campaign is being audited? Yet, the DNC is now asking/demanding that we bail out the Obama campaign? The yokes on you dems--I dont pay for you anymore.

Stand up for our rights and tell them NO--they went over their budget and cheated the win of this election so take it out of your own pockets.

Stupid stupid democrats.