Obama's Super Bowl party: Chips, dip and one Republican
Today is Super Bowl XLIV and so President XLIV of the United States is having a few folks over to the White House to eat and drink and maybe watch.
What a numerical coincidence!
And in the spirit of Barack Obama's professed bipartisanship, the Democrat has invited one Republican to join the crowd witnessing Indianapolis win another National Football League championship. (UPDATE: Oops.)
He's Joseph Cao, the first Vietnamese American in Congress. He won last year's special election to fill the vacancy created by the conviction of Democrat Rep. William "Doesn't Everyone Keep $90,000 in the Freezer?" Jefferson.
That congressional district is in, tah dah, New Orleans, which sent a team to the Super Bowl this year, even though it's in Miami.
Cao, like his party of Lincoln in Washington, D.C., these days, will be in a distinct minority at the gathering of 16 Democrats from the House, Senate and Obama's Cabinet. Vice President Joe Biden is not in Delaware this weekend; he went to Colorado instead for no announced public events.
Presumably, they'll be able to get through all the snow that fell on the nation's capitol this weekend (Ticket photo gallery here.)
The White House press office said an unspecified number of unidentified Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and their families would also attend the television-watching event.
-- Andrew Malcolm
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I can help but get a laugh out of Obama's definition of bipartisanship.
He thinks that bipartisanship consists of the Republicans going along with his agenda while not allowing a single Republican idea, such as tort reform, to enter the healthcare bill.
The man turned out to be just an empty suit who happens to speak well.
He has failed and he got help in his failure from those clowns running congress.
Come November we are going to take out the trash.
Posted by: Jim Ramsdell | February 07, 2010 at 01:18 PM
@Jim, The Republican party has no new ideas. How many different ways can Pres. Obama ask them to share them? Let's face it they had 8 long years to express and implement them. They are and will remain the party of No, No ideas, No solutions, other than tax cuts for the wealthy and the support of any war, even if it's based on lies.
Posted by: SAINTSational | February 07, 2010 at 07:14 PM
The tea baggers/party, whatever, remind me of the KKK rallies. A lot of similarities.
Posted by: Really | February 07, 2010 at 07:15 PM
The White House seems to be having a pretty fun Super Bowl party and I understand Valerie Jarrett has even invited Army Vice Chief of Staff GEN Peter Chiarelli to attend in formal uniform to serve drinks at this affair.
Suspect everyone has heard about the black tie event last weekend where White House senior adviser Jarrett mistook the Army 4-Star General for a waiter and asked him to get her a drink.
Does it surprise anyone that a Senior White House official can’t pick out the senior military officer in a line up of hotel doormen? It shouldn't; with the departure of National Security Advisor General James Jones several months ago, NO ONE in the West Wing has ever donned a uniform in defense of this nation which makes Obama's truly a "Vet-less Administration."
Want to know how I really feel, check out my Blog at: http://old-soldier-colonel.blogspot.com/
Posted by: A_COL | February 06, 2011 at 12:37 PM