It's Time to Raise Taxes on the Rich Obama says

The election is now over and President Obama won a second term in office. Since learning the results last Tuesday evening, Mr. Obama returned to Washington and is hard at work.

During this week, Mr. Obama attended three 1/2 hour daily briefings and met with Hillary Clinton once.  He accepted the resignation of CIA Director Petraeus, attended a Veterans Day Ceremony at Arlington Cemetery and delivered 3 speeches.

His current focus is to push Congress into raising taxes on those who he feels are wealthy.  These are the working single taxpayers who earn more than $200,000 per year, and families who earn over $250,000 per year.

For this purpose, he is meeting with special interest lobbyists, union leaders, and progressive groups such as MoveOn, SEIU, and the AFL-CIO. These are some of the major groups who contributed heavily to the 2012 Obama for America Presidential campaign. The meetings will not be public.

The following is a summary of President Obama's official schedule for the week of Wednesday November 7 through Tuesday November 13 2012.

Today, Tuesday, November 13, 2012

• President Obama has a 10:45 AM daily briefing. Then at 11:30, he and VP Biden will meet with Union and progressive leaders from the labor community. Included will be representatives from the: SEIU, AFSCME, NEA, AFL-CIO, Center for American Progress, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, Common Purpose Project, National Committed to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, MoveOn, and Center for Community Change. The meeting will be behind closed doors and the press is not invited.

Sunday, November 11, 2012

• President Obama attended a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns and delivered remarks.

Friday, November 9, 2012

• President Obama began the day at 10:00 AM with a daily briefing. One half hour later, he met with Hillary Clinton. After that, he delivered a 1:05 PM statement about the actions he wishes to take to regarding the economy. 

Thursday, November 8, 2012

• President Obama received a daily briefing at 11:15 AM.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

• President Obama left Chicago IL at 3:40 PM with his family and flew back to Washington.
• VP Biden returned to Wilmington Delaware.

Texas, Missouri, and Florida old people, kids & contributors hear about Jobs

Today the President is attending 4 different fundraising events in two states. The first two are in Dallas TX and are both in the Sheraton Hotel. Since they are in the same location, we save on inter-city transportation for the presidental entourage. The excuse for being in Texas is that the president will speak urge Congress to pass the American Jobs Act. Hmmm. That could have been done right in Washington if Mr. Obama just visited the Capital.

On the way back, the President will stop in St. Louis MO and appear in two more campaign events.

While he is out of DC, the Vice President is urging children in an Elementary school in Florida to pressure their Congressmen to pass the Jobs Act.

Boy, the Administration is sure getting a log of free mileage pushing this failed proposal. But, just imagine if Congress did indeed pass this Act. If it did: "What excuse would Obama and Biden have for using our expensive military airplanes to crisscross the country?"

As promised, "I will not rest ..."

... until all the campaign dollars are collected!"

It's got to be tiring: traveling from city to city and attending multiple fundraisers in a single day. But, that is exactly what the President and Vice President have been doing these past few days.

Today, Obama leaves his generous donors in California and flies off to Denver Colorado where he's scheduled to give a Jobs speech at a local high school. He'll be in Denver for just a few hours, but it will be long enough for him to justify his hefty expense account.

Meanwhile, Joe Biden hits up wealthy donors in 3 different campaign events today. The first is at a private residence in New York City around noon. Then, he flies to Boston MA and attends two more campaign fundraising  gatherings. There are no "official" Vice Presidential duties listed on his agenda, so it seems that Team Obama will be paying for this personal day off from the office (Biden campaigns in NYC and Boston).

Jobs Act selling out at private DNC buffet fundraisers

On the menu, the new buffet rule: Tax the Millionaires (unless they give lots of money to the Obama Victory Fund).  The rest can eat peas.

Last Thursday evening,  September 15, the President attended 2 private fundraisers in the Washington DC area. The first was a DNC event sponsored by the African American Leadership Council. It was held in the Foggy Bottom condo and approximately 30 wealthy folks handed over $35,800 per ticket to the President ( Obama talks congress at fundraiser ). And, shortly afterward, a second money transfer occurred in Georgetown where 50 patrons gathered and gave $35,800 per couple ( Obama fundraises on jobs act ).

Today, Mr. and Mrs. Obama fly up to New York City to begin their combined U.N. / DNC Fundraising appearances. Upon arrival, the President attends a United Nations Mission meet and greet. Then, he is off to a DNC event, but no word has been given as to the amount of donation required to attend.

To Obama, Labor Day means Bully Day

The President's frustrated re-election campaign revealed its true colors this past Labor Day weekend in the battle to control America.

First, Mr. Obama traveled to Detroit Michigan and gave a jobs speech to a crowd of friendly workers. However, his remarks were foreshadowed by the introduction delivered by Teamsters chief Hoffa who urged the President to "take these son-of-a-bitches out", referring to the tea party opposition.

Less than an hour later in Cincinnati Ohio, VP Joe Biden urged an AFL-CIO crowd to "stop the barbarians at the gate!".

The only problem the administration has with these "give-em hell' speeches is that is that Obama is pushing more "free trade agreements" with underdeveloped countries which means more importing of foreign goods and less U.S. manufacturing by either union or non-union labor.

While not directly campaigning, the President toured the receding flood waters in Paterson NJ on Sunday. There, he met with local residents and promised to help in the rebuilding of the city from Hurricane Irene's relentless damage.

Sources:
Biden fired up at Ohio rally
'Take these son-of-a-bitches out'
Obama tells GOP to get 'on board
In N.J., Obama promises aid

Deli for Obama, Duck for Biden - Who's classier?

As the President's two new $1.2 million buses roll through the mid-west campaign trail, Obama shared yesterday's lunch hour with Minnesota veterans at the Old Market Deli ( Veterans eat with Obama ). While the Congress and Senate were embroiled  in difficult budget talks last month, we noticed that Mr. O seemed to keep a low profile. We now know that one of the items on his non-public agenda was the coordination and ordering of the two Secret Service armored buses that he is now using for his 3 state heartland, republican bashing, campaign tour ( $2.2 million for Secret Service's new armored buses ). The president is saying that the taxpayers must foot the bill for this campaign swing because he's addressing the economy. But, according to NPR the real reason is that: Bus-Touring Obama Goes After GOP Presidential Hopefuls.

But not to be undone, the Hamptons rested Vice President has jetted off to China. He is on an 8 day, all taxpayer expense paid, trip to the Far East. There, he will meet with U.S. and Chinese business leaders, and get to know China's future leadership ( US Vice President to Discuss Economic Issues in China ). Since it seems that everything we now sell in the U.S. is made in China, we think the VP wants to keep it that way. That is great for China, but it doesn't help or encourage manufacturing growth here in the U.S.

At the end of his tour, Mr. Biden will then visit Mongolia and Japan. This fun filled trip "kicks off what U.S. officials describe as a busy diplomatic calendar of Asia-Pacific events in coming months" (See above link: US Vice ... ), which will include two Asia-Pacific Economic summits, one in Honolulu and the other in Bali.