Speaking on a radio program, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, ripped
into President Obama for sending his daughters, Sasha and Malia, on a
vacation while the federal government is being squeezed by the so-called
sequester.
ThinkProgress, a progressive blog, reports that King was speaking on
the “Mickelson in the Morning” program. A listener named Carla called in
and began to reprimand Michelle Obama for vacationing in the Bahamas
with her two daughters.
“It’s hard to stomach. When we’re tightening our belts, we should
either all do it or none of us do it,” she said, referring to
sequestration – the recent round of automatic spending cuts that went
into effect earlier this month when Congress and President Obama failed
to reach a budget agreement.
Earlier this week, conservative news outlet Breitbart.com reported
that the girls were on spring break, and named the resort where they
were staying.
King agreed with the caller, saying, “Carla, you’re on point and on
the mark all the way through.” King then went on to mention that the
girls vacationed in Mexico the year before.
“He sent the daughters to spring break in Mexico a year ago,” King
said, referring to President Obama. “That was at our expense, too. And
now to the Bahamas at one of the most expensive places there. That is
the wrong image to be coming out of the White House.”
The Obamas pay for family vacations themselves. But critics complain that those costs do not include security measures.
King, who is mulling over a Senate bid in 2014, has been an outspoken
critic of President Obama for years. During the 2008 presidential
campaign, King predicted that should Obama beat John McCain, “then the
radical Islamists, the al-Qaida, the radical Islamists and their
supporters, will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they
did on September 11 …”
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