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Ed Royce caught posing with a party crasher at President Obama's state dinner party

Admin posted this in Fresh Juice, barack obama, ed royce on November 26th, 2009

Ed Royce poses with Obama party crasher Michaele Salahi

Hey Ed, where’s your wife? Does she know what you’re up to? (Picture Courtesy of the O.C. Register)

We always knew Congressman Ed Royce was useless, but now he is a national buffoon. Royce attended a party thrown by President Barack Obama this week, in honor of the Indian Prime Minister. Royce sits on some committee that has to do with India.

While at the party Rocye, inexplicably, posed with a tall blonde, who turned out to be a party crasher! Michaele Salahi and her husband Tareq crashed the party – and got through security without party invitations!

“Royce wasn’t the only legitimate guest who had his picture taken with the dinner crashers. So did Vice President Joe Biden, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and CBS news anchor Katie Couric,” according to the Total Buzz blog.

This has been a rough month for Royce, who endorsed lame carpetbagger Linda Ackerman only to watch Chris Norby completely trounce her in the special election for the 72nd Assembly District. That seat was vacated by pervy Mike Duvall – another lame guy that Royce supported.

Michaele and Tareq Salahi

Now even the Total Buzz wants to know why he was posing with Salahi…

“The Secret Service is looking into its security procedures after determining that the Virginia couple managed to slip into Tuesday night’s event even though they were not on the guest list, agency spokesman Ed Donovan said,” according to the Chicago Tribune.

Maybe the Secret Service needs to let Royce’s wife Marie know what he has been doing at these parties?

15 comments to Ed Royce caught posing with a party crasher at President Obama’s state dinner party

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Vern Nelson says:

November 26, 2009 at 11:16 am

Ruh-roh. I told you Ed is very short. I looked down into his giant blue eyes once and dared him to debate his challenger, who was Florice Hoffman that year. I tried to use some argument with him referencing the Lincoln-Douglass debates. He laughed and said “I’d rather debate you!” which was chickensh*t as I was not running against him. The fact remains that ONLY Dana Rohrabacher in all of the OC has the guts to debate his challengers.

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Fringer says:

November 26, 2009 at 12:20 pm

Oh, oh. Something tells me FFFF is going to have some fun with this!

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Lam Pho says:

November 26, 2009 at 2:38 pm

I love this couple. She is such a fine beautiful blond and her husband is a distinguish looking gentleman. I would love to see how they’d cope living in a Federal prison for 3 years. That’s one reality television show that I’ll be sure to watch, at least for a couple weeks.

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the great one says:

November 26, 2009 at 2:59 pm

could we get photos of every male democrat who poses with a hot girl that is not his wife hmmmmm this sounds like another fishing trip by the lefties on the site .

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(No Longer) First Time Poster says:

November 27, 2009 at 10:31 am

This is a stupid post. Royce was legitimately invited to an event and the “crasher” wasn’t. So, other than to establish the “crasher’s” bona fides, who cares if they took a picture with Royce? There is no way he would have any inkling as to her improper admission.

Which belies the real reason for the post. To belittle Royce – no pun intended. “Useless”? Again, this demonstrates the lack of knowledge of the poster. Royce is actually regarded in Washington and outside as someone who is knowledgeable of issues, and careful in his policy decisions.

He has won praise by both aisles as someone who actually took the Africa subcommittee charimanship (when the GOP was in the majority) and treated it seriously. Unlike past chairman who viewed it as a slap, he used it to advocate for reforming trade imbalance and montetary issues with Afircan countries; interestingly, he also used it as a bully pulpit for humanitarian issues – challenging the practice of female genital mutilation. Aside from that, he has been a staunch advocate on forein affairs issues in SE Asia. Now that all GOP are in the minority, I guess the term “useless” is a blanket statement for anyone with an “R” next to their name. Does the term “useless” also apply to Joe Biden? I haven’t seen him breaking any ties in the Senate lately. Or perhaps “useless” applies to the President’s economic stimulus plan, which has created 100s of thousands of jobs . . . er, oops!

And #1 – why would anyone debate a candidate who has absolutely no chance of winning? That only gives the candidate credibility. Duh! By the way, Royce holds more town hall meetings than any other congressman I know. He started doing it immediately after he was elected to the House (long before it became commonplace following the 94 Rep. revolution). He continues to do so. He will meet and speak with anyone, anytime. So why debate? He makes his stands on issues well known.

Finally, who cares if he endorsed Ackerman? So what. Congressmen endorse lots of people that loose. Big deal.

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Vern Nelson says:

November 27, 2009 at 10:56 am

And #1 – why would anyone debate a candidate who has absolutely no chance of winning? That only gives the candidate credibility.

Well, that’s the cynical way of looking at it, and of course that’s just what Royce, Campbell, Miller, Calvert, and Loretta Sanchez would say if nobody else were listening.

But how about going the extra mile to respect the fact that we theoretically have “democracy” in spite of the travesty of our bipartisanly-gerrymandered safe districts?

And how about letting your constituents hear both sides of some issues? And showing your confidence that your own positions can take some aggressive questioning?

Now that I remember, that IS why I brought up the Lincoln Douglass Debates. Douglass was the heavy favorite, Lincoln didn’t have a chance, Douglass didn’t want to “give him credibility,” but Lincoln stubbornly dogged him … and you may not remember, but Douglass still won, went down in history as a great sport and a great debater, and the people of Illinois were the richer for it.

I still say that even though Dana is a lunatic in a dozen ways, I really respect him agreeing to debate Debbie last year, Brandt the two times before, and Gerri Schipske in ‘02. DEBATES SHOULD BE REQUIRED BY LAW.

Duh!

This “duh” communicates quite well the smug complacency of the cynical political insider. Some of us are out here fighting for more democracy though.

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Art Pedroza says:

November 27, 2009 at 11:05 am

#5,

Care to tell us how many bills Royce has carried in the House? Wouldn’t that be zero?

He is indeed usless.

How many junkets has this guy been on on? Answer – hundreds, at public expense.

And to compound things, Royce always endorses RINO’s like Ackerman and Dick Jones.

Useless!!!

Now why did he pose with the party crasher? She was draped all over the little shrimp!

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(No Longer) First Time Poster says:

November 27, 2009 at 11:29 am

Vern – democracy is what its about. Why debate someone with a snowball’s chance? Because democracy demonstrates that his district doesn’t give a rat’s *ss about the challenger. Just look at the numbers.

Art – why would someone who believes in SHRINKING the federal government carry bills? Other than perhaps ones that start with “The following titles of the US Code are hereby deleted” . . . And while you (and I for that matter) may think Ackerman and Jones are idiots, they clearly aren’t RINOs. But you are. That is why you are no longer one. There is a very specific use for that term and it doesn’t have anythign to do with “disliking” your opponents. RINO’s are people registered as republicans who do so merely because, were they to registger with another party with whom they agree politically, they would be unable to get elected. Neither Ackerman nor Jones fit that definition. While I love Norby, arguably he fits that term much better than the two you attach to that term because, as a philosophical libertarian, Norby probably feels more at home with that party. Yet he chooses to register Republican to win elections.

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Lam Pho says:

November 27, 2009 at 11:48 am

And he’s holding her hand too. Aaah, that doggg!! I’m voting for him next time, lol. At least he has good taste.

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Art Pedroza says:

November 27, 2009 at 11:58 am

#8,

Ed Royce wants to shrink the government? That is highly debatable. Didn’t he support G.W. Bush? And didn’t chickenhawk Royce support all the wars we are mired in, including the drug war? How do you think we are paying for all of that? Royce’s actions will lead to higher taxes.

So Royce is a legislator who doesn’t legislate? Useless!

As for the RINO’s he has supported, most of them support redevelopment and eminent domain abuse. And they support higher taxes and fees. And quite a few of them also support public pension spikes! Those are not Republican values, are they?

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Vern Nelson says:

November 27, 2009 at 3:39 pm

Vern – democracy is what its about. Why debate someone with a snowball’s chance? Because democracy demonstrates that his district doesn’t give a rat’s *ss about the challenger. Just look at the numbers.

My, what a crimped and shriveled vision you have of “democracy,” Mr. No Longer – somewhere between Saddam and Hugo Chavez. I don’t know the figures off the top of my head – you probably do – but I’d think Dems in that district are at least 35-45%, and with a lot of Decline to State added, that’s over half the voters. Is your idea of democracy to behave as though all those folks have no choice but to vote for the 20-year Republican incumbent again and again and again?

It’s your prerogative to behave that way in a “safe district” but don’t try using “democracy” in the same sentence.

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Tony Bushala says:

November 27, 2009 at 5:39 pm

#5, “Finally, who cares if he endorsed Ackerman? So what. Congressmen endorse lots of people that loose. Big deal.” It is a big deal, Ackerwoman DID NOT live in the 72nd District. The people of the 72nd care. Royce shot himself in the foot, again. He must be afraid of Norby, like he is of anyone who challenges him. Let’s see who he backs for Fullerton City Council next year.

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the great one says:

November 27, 2009 at 6:32 pm

art hates royce because he fights ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION . NOTE THE WORD ILLEGAL NOT IMMIGRANTS .

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Vern Nelson says:

November 27, 2009 at 6:42 pm

It’s funny all this good conversation happens just because some bimbo has her picture shot with Ed – goes to prove Art’s philosophy that the quality of the original story isn’t as important as the debate that ensues…

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Vern Nelson says:

November 28, 2009 at 9:12 am

In Ed’s defense, to put this in context (from Talking Points Memo)

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