Radio Derb Transcript
3-29-14
Pomp and circumstance. The elected President of a constitutional republic is entitled to some displays of pomp and extravagance at the people's expense, I have no problem with that. A public inauguration ceremony; review of the troops; banquets for visiting foreign leaders; an occasional state visit abroad if there is some strategic purpose to it; I'm fine with those things. I do wish, as I've mentioned on Radio Derb more than once, that the State of the Union address would go back to being hand-delivered to Congress in written form — that thing has gotten way out of hand. A little pomp doesn't go amiss though.
However, it needs to be kept under control, and under this administration it isn't. Mrs. Obama's trip to China has been an absolute disgrace. She took the two Obama daughters and her own mother with her and they stayed at the Westin Chaoyang hotel in central Peking in a suite listed at $8,400 per night.
And that was of course the least of it. The Obama ladies dragged along with them an entourage of seventy — seventy — most of them security people. All this was at public expense.
First off, Mrs. Obama is not an employee of our federal government. She has no constitutional position; and, since no-one ever elected or appointed her to such, it would be a disgrace if she did have one. She has no claim on the public fisc other than what she requires to keep up a decent appearance as the President's spouse.
Second, we maintain a large and expensive embassy in Peking.
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