Payin’ for change before the election, and having to pay for it immediately after

Just when you thought you’d heard it all:

The Ticket reported, jokingly, the other day about the latest Barack Obama fundraising appeal.

He’s the fellow who raised way more than $605 million and, would you believe it, won the presidential election campaign to bring real change to Washington.

As an important part of changing the money culture of Washington he was asking for another $30 donation from everyone on the e-mail list.

It seems that in addition to his 6/10ths of a billion dollars to move into the White House, the Democratic National Committee spent way more than the $100 million in cash it had raised.

In fact, it took out “substantial loans.”

Well, it turns out now, the DNC’s debts are far worse than originally imagined. Today, Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe sent another urgent e-mail to supporters seeking at least another $30.

Here’s what he said:

“We’ll get to work transforming this country. But first, we need to take care of the DNC.”

Did we hear that right? Now that Obama’s the president-elect, the top priority is the Democratic National Committee?

To drive home the point elsewhere in the same e-mail Plouffe adds: “Before we do anything else, we need to pay for this winning strategy.”

I’ve gotten these emails in my inbox this week as well. Each time I’ve read them, I’ve shaken my head in disgust. Not that we needed any proof that the Democrat party doesn’t manage its money well, but this is sort of like the icing on the cake.

So in order to get the “change” they were promised before the election, supporters are being told that before Obama can officially start that “change” process that the DNC needs to be bailed out by those same supporters.

Frankly, if his supporters are willing to bail out the DNC, I say let them pay for Obama’s socialistic agenda, too – and leave those of us who didn’t support him the heck out of it.