Transparency! Obama's WH Birthday Bash Closed to Press

After nearly three years of greed and excess, the Obamas decided photos of his big birthday bash wouldn't look so cool as the stock market was crashing.

Obama's party--paid for, the White House said, by the First Couple--was closed press and not on his official schedule. Obama's team was not eager for pictures of the bash, coming as the stock market was plunging and a new jobless report comes out Friday morning.

So they paid for it? Um, can we see the receipts?