The High Cost of Inauguration

Those who aren't professional event coordinators might gasp at the sticker price of a second Bush inauguration: $40 million (in private donations). A new Salon article puts the matter in context.

As Bull Moose noted, "It is obscene to hold a lavishly funded official ho-down in the nation's capital while our troops go into harms way thousands of miles away from home. Only a few miles away from the waltzing, brave young men and women will be struggling to walk again at Walter Reed and Bethesda Naval."