Showing posts with label White House Halloween party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label White House Halloween party. Show all posts

Monday, January 9, 2012

Through the White House Looking Glass


With all the irrational, bad-faith, and unconstitutional actions by the Obama administration, we often thought we might be living in an Alice in Wonderland world--but figuratively speaking only.

Until now.

Apparently, the administration adopted its literal meaning, the New York Post reports:
It was the tea party the Obamas just couldn’t resist. 
A White House “Alice in Wonderland” costume ball — put on by Johnny Depp and Hollywood director Tim Burton — proved to be a Mad-as-a-Hatter idea that was never made public for fear of a political backlash during hard economic times, according to a new tell-all...
The book reveals how any official announcement of the glittering affair — coming at a time when Tea Party activists and voters furious over the lagging economy, 10-percent unemployment rate, bank bailouts and Obama’s health-care plan were staging protests — quickly vanished down the rabbit hole.