Obama Dog Pick Stalled By Immigration, Tax Questions
by Scott Ott for ScrappleFace •
(2009-02-25) — The First Family has decided the new White House pet will be a Portuguese Water Dog, however, the official naming reportedly has been delayed by administration officials insisting on careful vetting to avoid embarrassing questions about immigration status or taxes.
“With a foreign-sounding name, naturally we’re taking extra precautions to ensure that all the papers are in order,” said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. “And, of course, with a breed like Portuguese Water Dog, we’ll want to know if entering the country involved any swimming. The standard immigrant dorsal moisture test will be applied.”
Mr. Gibbs added that due to the tax difficulties with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and the aborted nomination of Tom Daschle as Health and Human Services secretary, “we need to make sure that anyone we let into the White House from now on has faithfully done his duty. Unlike some of the others, we’re going to make sure this one passes the smell test.”