[OESY]

"Prodigious Republican fund-raising will pay for a celebration"? Note to Democrats: It helps to have a leader and a message you can trust.

P.S. for Kristinn: Gen. Tommy Franks was emailed an invitation to the FReeper Ball yesterday via Cavuto on Business, where he appeared as a guest, though there is no confirmation he received it.

[OESY]

"The inauguration should be for all citizens," said Fred Wertheimer, the president of Democracy 21, an organization that seeks to prevent the influence of big money in politics. "And to create different classes of citizens at the inauguration depending on how rich you are - and how much money you are prepared to spend to buy first-class citizenship - is not what our democracy is about."

More accurately phrased, Wertheimer seeks to prevent the influence of Republican big money in politics. I don't recall Freddie Boy as being particularly outraged about George Soros's $23 million in soft money.

[OESY]

ping for P.S. re: Gen. Franks

[WestTexasWend]

"...inaugurations far different from the ones envisioned by the founding fathers."

I doubt the inaugural parties would top the founding father's "Not In Our Name" list!

[blue-duncan]

I'm glad to see that the Times is following up on their story on the excesses of the Clinton Library money grab with this sour grapes story. I'd hate to think that they were biased in any way.

[OldFriend]

How sweet it is!!!