Good, Price is out. His offence? Wasting taxpayer dollars while serving the public. Can anyone tell me the difference between what Price did and what Trump has done for weekends on end, traveling to his private country clubs and charging the American taxpayers to cover the cost of that along with the room & board & transportation of his crew? There is none. There is no difference. There is only a distinction without a difference.
And for that matter, there is no difference between that and the American taxpayer paying for the Obama family to vacation on Martha’s Vineyard as the Clinton’s did as well. There is a slight distinction, perhaps. It was not as opulent, not as extravagant, but that’s only a distinction without a difference.
The American taxpayer provides the president with the White House, Camp David, and there are hundreds of federal parks. That should be the it. If any sitting president wants to stay elsewhere, let them pay the full expense, just as their working class voters do when they go on vacation.
I hope that one party takes his little hint to heart and I hope it’s the Democrats…..but I’m not so sure of that.
No, I would oppose this. The President is always the President and the 25th doesn’t get invoked for vacations. Maybe some kind of cap would be in order, but there are a lot of other places he needs to stay from time to time. Cabinet officers, OTOH, should be able to more clearly distinguish between business and pleasure and could often fly commercial.
Instead of a cap, how about a president and a party that leads by example? How about a party that identifies with working class voters?
I think they should take over #draintheswamp. No administration is as swampy is this garbage fire.
Imagine the series of ads they could run on that alone!
We should also run on “Make America Great Again”, except that we would mean it. So much of what Trump has done on the international front threatens to have the opposite effect.