Bloomberg: Obama Not Playing Enough Social Golf Rounds
Kevin Liptak on New York mayor and golf nut Michael Bloomberg's assertion Sunday that President Barack Obama is not playing enough rounds to schmooze his opponents.
"I find it fascinating, people criticize him for taking people to dinner - he should be doing that every night. They criticize him for going and playing golf with people who he's got to deal with. He should be doing that every weekend. You always can work better with somebody that you have a chance to build a social relationship with," Bloomberg - who ran as a Republican in 2002 but later switched his party to "independent" - said on CBS's "Face the Nation." Bloomberg endorsed Obama in 2012's presidential campaign.
The comments were in response to Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas' legislation proposal to make use of federal funds illegal for commuting to and from golf outings until the White House resumes tours.
Monday, March 11, 2013 at 10:37 AM
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George W. Bush was on vacation 1,020 days — the most than any U.S. President since Herbert Hoover and possibly more than any other President in history.
Even President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was in office 12 years from 1933 to 1945, was on vacation less days than President Bush at 958 days. Calls to several Presidential Libraries reveal that no President can come close to Bush’s 1,020 days on vacation in an 8 year period. Some claim the cost of Bush’s frequent trips to Crawford, Texas cost taxpayers upwards of $20 million, but the numbers are hard to confirm.
Louie Gohmert is over-matched even when amusing himself at Pee-Wee's Playhouse.
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One a Thanksgiving day on 91st street my neighbors power goes out (he owns the whole brownstone). Con Ed comes out same day runs temp power line up out of manhole directly across sidewalk into his house. Come May 1 temp line still across sidewalk, etc... Neighbor says despite repeated calls to Con Ed from his lawyer he can get no action.
At the time I happened to have a Bloomberg machine on my desk and decided to send a Bloomberg message to Mayor Bloomberg. I explain the situation with the power line, point out that an electrocution death will probably cost the city about $8,000,000, and further mention that I despise the idea of a football stadium on the UWS but do appreciate him banning smoking in the bars!
In less than 2 hours I get a Bloomberg reply directly from Mayor Bloomberg saying...."Del, my assistant Suzanne will be in touch with you today or tomorrow, thanks on the no smoking, I'm going to change your mind on the stadium -Mike-".
This was a Monday, Suzanne called later that day and said Con Ed would have the problem fixed before the weekend -- they did!
That, folks, is the antithesis of "big government"....
Eff bloomberg. love seeing the libs try to defend his latest nonsense.
i find it laughable that after 50 million americans on food stamps, less employed, lower wages, higher taxes, skyrocketing debt, unbalanced budget, after all this....libs are actually getting a little upset about the fact their big gulp was proposed to be banned.
libs care nothing unless it directly affects them. selfish bstrds. add to the debt, but don't take my big gulp. as ridiculous as the ban was going to be, its disgusting to see how many people are really suffering in NY and the amount of people who aren't educated and then have a mayor focusing on the size of drinks. as dumb as this is, libs jump to defend him, just as they do obama and his moronic policies.
You are a wise man.
Our economy is barely limping along, we have 46 million people in poverty, the highest poverty rates in a generation, more and more people are giving up on the American idea, more and more people don’t think the country is going to be better off in the future when they hand it over to their kids. we have extraordinary debt, and libs think the answer is to increase spending.
So what we realize is we’re in this narrowing window of opportunity to get our fiscal house in order, to get our budget balanced, to get pro-growth economics. If obama continues his out of control spending , we’ll just have a harder fall at the end of the day, and everybody will get hurt. That’s what GOP wants to do. don't allow the liberal media to label the GOP as only bunch of white rich folk. They want to prevent people from getting hurt, we want real economic growth, and by the way, I would argue, obamas policies are just not really working out real well right now. Minor cuts in outrageous spending are not going to solve any problems. additional trillion in tax hikes will not help economy growth nor fix the deficit as obamas budget will propose.
i just can't wrap my mind around how libs look at all this information and think that everything is just fine and think we can continue with obama policies. yes, wrong forum, but i'm surprised as i would think that most on a site like this would be more informed. rip me all you want, this country is suffering and obama is the reason. like i said, gop has no problem with president golfing, just looks bad to be spending on vacations while he cuts programs like white house tours. i would think even a lib could agree with that.