CALIFORNIA, HERE HE COMES – AT 8:52 A.M. ET:  As a former California governor might have said, "There he goes again."  President Obama is flying out for a visit...but not to the people of the state.  From Andrew Malcolm at the L.A. Times's Top of the Ticket blog:

The good news for California Democrats is that their hero President Obama is returning to the Golden state this afternoon.

The bad news is once again they'll have to hand over big money to see or hear him.

Common Californians -- including the increasing 12.6% of whom are now unemployed -- will be unable to hear the president address the economy or mounting fears over his healthcare bill and its costs because his announced events on this West Coast trip Monday are political and closed to all but donors.

Again.

Let 'em eat cake...dietetic of course.

Just FYI for Obama critics out there, you should know your recent demonstrations have entertained the 44th president. In Miami last week Obama told another crowd of donors ($2.5 million) that he was "a little amused" at the sight of so many tax protests across the country.

On his previous stop in California the Smoker in Chief only appeared with....

...Speaker Nancy Pelosi at two high-priced Democratic fundraisers in San Francisco. Those two raked in $3 million there in one night together. So he's still a good dinner draw despite poll numbers drooping below 50% now.

The dollar haul could well exceed that sum in LA tonight between Obama's $2,500 speech and the $17,600 per plate dinner-speech later.

COMMENT:  That's $17,600 for dinner...for one.  Does your spouse get half off?  I heard there were coupons. 

Let us remember that the Democrats are the party of the people.  Of course, they don't say which people, but the dinner tab should tell us that.

April 19, 2010