Everybody’s going to have to have some skin in the game…

So saith Barry,

That was his response when questioned on who was going to have to make sacrifices for the “greater good.” Yet, the Hypocrite-in-Chief, and Mrs H-i-C,

… the first couple jetted to New York City for date night. A Broadway show and probably dinner were on tap.

At a time when we are being told to tighten our belts, in what Obama has categorized as the worst economic climate since The Great Depression, Barry is spending like a drunken sailor. Not content with mortgaging our grandchildren’s future, he is not leading by example by wining and dining his wife at extravagant expense while unemployment skyrockets and car companies crash and burn. Nice common touch, huh? Let them eat arugula. Oh wait, they just took the little plane,

the Obamas took a smaller plane than the jumbo jet he usually uses.

Before he gets a congratulatory email from Al Gore, who invented the internet by the way, we learn,

White House staff and reporters flew in two similar aircraft.

A White House spokesman, Josh Earnest, said the smaller planes were used because fewer aides traveled with the presidents and the planes were more efficient than the big jet.

The White House refused to say how much the trip was costing taxpayers.

So the cost of flying Barry and Sasquatch to NYC in three separate aircraft for a date is none of our business. To say nothing of the carbon footprint and the damage to the environment that is so dire we are told we must act now. Not Al Gore or Barry, it’s not that urgent. But it is for us. Remember the furor when auto company execs jetted in for congressional hearings?

Barry thy name is “hypocrisy.”

DRJ over at Patterico has more, and the beginnings of a discussion this young blog can only dream of.

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has more. Hot Air again with details of the cost.