Some metaphors other than Las Vegas that President Obama isn’t allowed to use anymore

The following is at the top of the Drudge Report right now:

It leads to this story at Las Vegas’s CBS affiliate which almost sounds like it was written by The Onion:

During the president’s town hall meeting in Nashua, New Hampshire, he discussed the need to curb spending during tough economic times. “When times are tough, you tighten your belts,” the president said. “You don’t go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don’t blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you’re trying to save for college.”

The president’s comments come nearly a year after he criticized companies that received federal money for taking corporate junkets to Las Vegas. “You can’t go take that trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on taxpayers’ dime,” he said at the time. Local business leaders say Nevada tourism suffered last year in part because companies canceled trips to Las Vegas in the wake of the president’s comments.

His statement Tuesday drew sharp criticism from Nevada lawmakers. “The President needs to lay off Las Vegas and stop making it the poster child for where people shouldn’t be spending their money,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat. “Las Vegas is suffering through one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, and we cannot afford for the President to bring us down any further,” added Republican Senator John Ensign. “Nevada has one of the most distressed economies in the country, and the President has done little to focus on job creation over the past year. Discouraging people from coming to our state to make a political point adds insult to injury,” said Republican Congressman Dean Heller.

via President Obama Again Criticizes Trips to Las Vegas – Las Vegas Now.

Lipstick on a pig alert! My faux outrage is more outraged than ever!

Seriously – Senator Harry Reid who blew the biggest majority Democrats have had in the Senate in decades and is about to be the second consecutive Democratic Majority Leader to lose re-election is chastising the President for using a common metaphor about how one shouldn’t gamble with money that is reserved for necessities.

Seriously deuce – Senator John Ensign, whose parents had to help him pay off a disconsolate ex-employee whose wife he was banging, and who appears to be the subject of an FBI investigation, is telling President Obama not to bring Las Vegas down any further.

Well, if that’s the case, here are some other metaphors that President Obama isn’t allowed to use anymore:

1. You don’t go to the Hustler Club in New York City and pay for bottle service for all of your investment banks’ associates with money you were supposed to set aside to hedge against a market decline. If you say this, Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Senator Chuck Schumer will complain because you made a beleaguered Wall Street a poster boy for excess.

2. You don’t go down to Florida and buy three houses using liar loans backed with money down from a CD you set up for your kids. Governor Charlie Crist and Senator Bill Nelson will accuse you of kicking ‘ponzi state‘ Florida while it’s down and out.

3. You don’t go to Nieman Marcus with money the Republican National Committee gave you to buy yourself a few outfits and get your children expensive handbags. Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will use the fact that you said that a month later to claim that you were disaparaging all of G-d’s children with Downs Syndrome.

Nevadans, I am embarrassed for you that you are represented by these two clowns. I hope you get some new senators for Christmas.