Obama Takes $180,000-an-hour Fundraising Trip

The Republican National Committee struck out at what they deem to be President Barack Obama's hypocrisy Wednesday, as he cuts White House tours because of the sequester, but takes pricey Air Force One flights to pad his campaign account.

"On the campaign trail, Obama's favorite applause line was attacking the very people he's now begging for campaign cash," said RNC Chairman Reince Priebus. "Hypocrisy at its finest. Barack Obama has his priorities completely backward -- prioritizing billionaires over the taxpayers who demand and deserve a budget and cancelling White House tours while he spends $180,000 an hour flying Air Force One to fundraise on Billionaires Row."

Obama travels west from Washington Wednesday, making one official stop in Colorado to push for gun legislation, before heading to California for four fundraisers aimed at putting control of the U.S. House back in the hands of Nancy Pelosi.

The president will start his donor dance at the home of Keystone pipeline opponentThomas Steyer, the founder of Farallon Capital Management, with the $5,000-a-head checks going to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Upping the ante at his next visit, Obama will head to dinner at Gordon Getty's pad where a seat at the table costs a mere $32,400. The DCCC is again the lucky recipient of those funds.

Then, on Thursday, the president focuses on digging the Democratic National Committee out of debt, starting with a $32,400 brunch at the home of an Environmental Defense Fund board member, and wrapping with an event that ranges from $1,000 to $20,000 for attendance.

In light of the commander in chief's upcoming schedule, the RNC released a video Wednesday reminding voters of Obama's campaign rhetoric.