India trip figures refuted?

  Who knows. Here's what they're saying, for what it's worth. One can't discount White House fabrication/downplaying/lies. Allahpundit at Hot Air:

I’m relieved to say that we didn’t bite on this one, notwithstanding Drudge’s touting of it today. I did, though, link in Headlines the stories about his trip allegedly costing $200 million(!!!) per day and his team booking every room in a five-star hotel in Mumbai. I didn’t begrudge him that last one, actually; very bad things have been known to happen to hotels in Mumbai, so why not take all necessary precautions? As for the purported cost of the trip, yeah, $200 mil sounds nutty — but after a $2.5 trillion health-care bill and an $800 billion stimulus, I confess that no numbers seem implausible to me anymore when it comes to government expenditures.

  I bit. It sounded plausible, considering everything's that happened the last two years. The guy's a narcissist and reality becomes fiction becomes reality these days.
  Who would have guessed 2 years ago we'd be paying our neighbors' mortgages, or that free weatherizing would be offered to inner city folks, or New Black Panthers would be patrolling voting booths with weapons and the DOJ would dismiss the charges? 
  Who would have guessed numerous people would receive thousands of dollars in remuneration for perceived grievances? 
  Or that the First Lady would spend millions on a vacation? 
  Or that the president of the United States would golf repeatedly, laughing into the camera as citizens suffer? 
  Or that the president of the United States would refuse to do the right thing in the Gulf of Mexico, instead sticking by ancient, union friendly rules?
  So 34 warships? 
  Meh. Who ever thought a trillion dollars would be added to our budget or the Fed would agree to print (or loan phantom dollars) $600 billion?
  Yeah. I bit.
  But I don't trust anybody anymore.