House freshman throws a party – and GOP cringes

[Harry Hope]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/46999.html

1/4/11

House freshman throws a party – and GOP cringes

By KENNETH P. VOGEL & MARIN COGAN

With Republican leaders anxious to set an austere tone for their ascendance into the House majority this week, the lavish fundraiser scheduled for Tuesday night at a trendy Washington hotel to benefit a dozen GOP freshmen is not exactly the populist image leaders are anxious to project.

House Speaker-elect John Boehner, whose name was featured on the invitation, http://politicalpartytime.org/party/24189/ is nonetheless skipping the event at the W Hotel, where lobbyists, political action committee managers and others paying the $2,500 ticket price will be treated to a performance by country music star LeAnn Rimes (a $50,000 package includes a block of eight tickets and a “VIP suite” at the W). http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/1210/LeAnn_Rimes_to_headline_GOP_freshman_fund_raiser.html The office of incoming Majority Leader Eric Cantor, another featured invitee, was noncommittal Monday night when asked whether he’d attend.

“If incoming GOP freshmen were hoping to bring fiscal responsibility and ‘family values’ to Washington, they may have gotten off to an interesting start,” conservative blogger Matt Lewis noted, citing the event’s steep ticket prices, as well as Rimes’s confessed extramarital affair and her recent appearance in a “Sexy Santa” outfit at a gay men’s chorus Christmas performance.

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Teabaggers should have a ball...their kinda event.

Harry

[n2doc]

1. How much is the "lap Dance" package

And does it include options for male and female dancers?

Once could have a great deal of fun if someone would film the proceedings and post them on you tube....

[tridim]

2. Someone check the hotel trash for the hooker reciepts. nt

[malaise]

3. Go ReTHUGS!!

Celebrate hypocrisy :puke:

[DemoTex]

4. Party like it's 1929!

Specifically, 10/29/1929

[Parche]

5. leann rimes?

gawd, how about throwing in michael bubble, american idols, trace adkins,
:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

[On the Road]

6. They Love LeAnn Rimes

'Cause they're all about values...

[lumberjack_jeff]

14. +1 n/t

[appal_jack]

19. Barenakedladies reference ftw!

[emulatorloo]

7. Wonder if TV networks will cover this story?

Oh, silly me what was I thinking.

[malaise]

11. Make sure you send it to Tweety, Ed, KO and Rachel

:evilgrin:

[emulatorloo]

12. They will cover, no doubt. They are about the only ones who actually report on Republican's

actions. Every other outlet just repeats the talking points.

[malaise]

15. Tamron about to cover this on

GEM$NBC

[malaise]

18. CNN talking about the $2,500 a plate bash

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

[Mojambo]

8. Might not attend, but you better believe they'll be taking the money. n/t

[phantom power]

9. It won't matter. If hypocrisy mattered any more, none of these people would have jobs.

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. Public servants they never were, and they never will be.

[gratuitous]

13. And then at midnight, the Ferrari cake!

And everyone gets a piece.

[Liberal_in_LA]

16. kick

[Proud Liberal Dem]

17. Hopefully, there will be even more "cringing" by the House GOP about their Tea Party bretheren

Maybe so much so that a few Republicans actually start acting like "adults" and worrying about more than their re-election in 2 years. OTOH they can feel free to allow the Tea Party crowd to embarrass and humiliate themselves as much as they want for the next two years!
:silly: