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Always To The Right on Sunday, November 30, 2008 12:56:54 AM
Michelle Malkin • November 28, 2008 05:01 AM
President Obama’s Chicago machine is kicking into high gear to plan
and fund his massive, unprecedented inaugural festivities. He just
appointed an inauguration planning committee that includes his hometown
cronies William Daley and Penny Pritzker. They’ve got a campaign-style website counting down the days to the massive party in Washington. To deflect attention from the costs, the One’s party planners are patting themselves on the back
for limiting inaugural donations to individual contributions of $50,000
— a move they say is historic. But Bill Clinton also refused corporate
money for his second inaugural and capped donations at $100. (Bush
raised $42 million for his second inaugural, mostly from corporate
donors, capped at $250,000.) The DC Examiner recently reported that the Inaugural Celebrations of Hope and Change will strain the district’s beleaguered pocketbook
All of which reminded me of the unhinged Left’s protests in late 2004 before the Bush inaugural. He was bashed
for continuing the American tradition in a time of war and for holding
parties so soon after the southeast Asian tsunami disaster.
Remember?
In fact, let me reprint Democrat Rep. Weiner’s entire protest letter from January 11, 2005
With an estimated 1.5 million people expected to descend on
Washington for the Obama festivities and a federal tax bill alone of at
least $50 million,
next January’s inauguration will dwarf Bush’s inaugural events and
expenses. We are still at war. And, as the Democrats remind us,
economic times are tough and average Americans are hurting.
Will Democrat Rep. Weiner demand that Obama go the “cold chicken
salad and plain pound cake” route and redirect all the money Obama’s
Chicago team is raising to the troops, too? Or has he stopped caring
about the brave men and women he exploited in 2005 to score
Bush-bashing points with the nutroots?
Will billionaire Mark Cuban, who demanded that Bush donate his
inauguration funds to Indonesian tsunami victims, call on Obama to fork
over the inaugural funds to victims of the Mumbai terrorist bombings or
to distressed American homeowners under water on their mortgages?
Where are all the anti-Inauguration critics now?
Just wondering.