Earlier today, CNN posted a story headlined, “President Obama to throw bipartisan Super Bowl party.” Well, it turns out the party will indeed be bipartisan, because Obama, who is under no obligation to invite any Republicans to his party, will invite one: Louisiana Rep. Joseph Cao. Cao, you remember, is the only GOP lawmaker in the whole Congress to vote for the Democratic health care proposal (although he has said he would not vote for it again if he had to accept the version passed by the Senate). That will make the White House Super Bowl party precisely as bipartisan as the health care bills, at least so far.
The White House just sent out a list of invitees to the White House Super Bowl affair. The members of Congress included are: Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA); Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA); Rep. Joseph Cao (R-LA); Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN); Rep. Brad Ellsworth (D-IN); Rep. Baron Hill (D-IN); Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA); and Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT).
It should be noted that the list includes one Democrat, Rick Boucher, who voted no on Obamacare; everyone else voted yes. Other guests will include cabinet secretaries Shaun Donovan, Arne Duncan, Eric Holder, Lisa Jackson, Janet Napolitano, Susan Rice, Kathleen Sebelius, Eric Shinseki, and Tom Vilsack. Also invited are “service members who were injured in Iraq or Afghanistan and their families,” according to a White House press release.
