Yep, I know there is too much Federal Goverment employee travel money being spent that could be saved through teleconferencing, etc.

However, what do you think would be said (by Republicans) if Pres. Obama went to Hawaii as originally scheduled and used teleconferncing to talk with Congress in Washington? He would be lambasted for that.

More than likely, the compound that the Obamas will stay in will have been scheduled for the certain days with everything paid for in advance with the special arrangements. Yep, there will be additional costs incurred here but a non-issue compared to millions of other dollars wasted in Congress.

Republicans will say it is against the Executive Order not to teleconference and they would lambast the president if he did it in this case - (President on vacation while Congress is stuck in Washington). Give the guy a break on such a small issue.