MEANWHILE, HOW MUCH DID CAPTAIN SELF-ABSORPTION JUST SPEND ON HIS OLYMPIC JAUNT?:

No Free Lunch at the White House (Elizabeth Williamson, 10/08/09, WSJ: Washington Wire)

Ka-ching. The White House rang up another tab Thursday when four chief executives came to dine with President Barack Obama—at their own expense.

A White House aide said the administration served sandwiches and salads in the president’s private dining room for “the same price as the going rate outside the walls of the White House.” After a wide-ranging discussion of financial sector recovery, health care overhaul, climate change and job creation policy, CEOs Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com; Lew Hay of Florida Power & Light; Antonio Perez of Eastman Kodak, and Irene Rosenfeld of Kraft handed over their credit cards.

Let's just hope he had the decency to lend them sweaters, what with the White House heat turned down and everything....

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 8, 2009 2:57 PM