Posted on 01/02/2009 3:57:31 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Republicans to flee DC for inauguration By: Jonathan Martin January 2, 2009 05:52 AM EST
While millions descend on Washington for the historic inauguration of Barack Obama on January 20, some Republicans see it as an occasion to get out of town.
Out of power on both ends of Pennsylvania Ave and mostly out of favor on K Street, many emasculated elephants in the GOP herd will begin the Age of Obama with what amounts to an extended holiday vacation. Instead of fighting the quadrennial cold and what are expected to be record-setting crowds, they're heading out to greener pastures, with better temperatures, less hassle and more agreeable company.
“What better way to mark the Obama Inauguration (and his millions of adoring fans that will be in DC) than to get out of town to fabulous Las Vegas!” wrote Charlie Spies, a Republican lawyer and former CFO to Mitt Romney’s campaign in a blast email to GOP friends. “We hope you can join us for dinner and a fun evening on Monday, January 19th to celebrate the last few hours of our Republican president in the White House.”
Spies and his wife Lisa, a Republican fund-raiser, have gotten about 15 takers so far for this last supper or, as they billed it in the e-mail, their own “Inaugural in Exile.”
They’re far from alone. Others will usher in the new era from the slopes, the islands, the NFL playoffs and even on a serendipitously-timed honeymoon. Full Democratic control of Washington may be a bitter pill, but it’s easier to get down from a lodge, beach, 50-yard-line or, especially, honeymoon suite.
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My grandchildren will miss the trillions Bush spent on wall street and rubber stamped for earmarks thats for sure.
Yeah, I wonder what Ramos and Campion will be having for dinner on the 19th? The fact that they're still in prison and their reputations and families ruined is an absolute scandal for which I'll never forgive Bush.
Mark
Nah, I’ll still be around here in ole DC. I live here (Alexandria). I have to work midshift that night. I’ll be heading home when all the Obamanista’s are coming in for there worship service. It will be just another day for me. Work, eat, sleep, rinse, repeat.
And don’t forget to get upwind!
I would also prepare and have some welders goggles handy, you never can be too prepared.
LLS
Who is Obama again?
One can “hope” that a piece of the real America lives on.
It was these very Republicans themselves who created this situation.
I think they should be required to stay in Washington and attend every single function as punishment for what they have done to us.
Republicans cut and run at every opportunity.
I would not want to be anywhere near that place...I’d be afraid of catching something...
I would not want to be anywhere near that place...I’d be afraid of catching something...
If you like, y’all can hole up at Chez Cholerique, until the looting’s over.
*****I think they should be required to stay in Washington and attend every single function as punishment for what they have done to us.****
Oh my....you are beginning to sound like a victim...STOP IT!!!!
You are an American dammit!
John McCain will be there, begging his Democrat friends to LET him work with them across the aisle. Then, when Stevens and Ginzberg retire, John will be right there with the Dems supporting two new liberal justices. It is going to get worse, much worse.
I’m surprised the Fuhrer won’t have his Obama Youth Stormtroopers round up the Republicans and put them in some sort of camp for his coronation.
NOt sure I’d leave town if I lived there.
Afraid the obmma lamma ding dong crowd coming for the festivities would steal everything in the house.
Lets keep a fine eye on the weather forecast, I can imagine that it will be pretty cold in DC on the 20th, who knows maybe a blizzard?
An inauguration and nobody but the snow plow drivers show up?
Talk about a double meaning of a snow job.
Maybe God will take mercy on us and open up a huge hole underneath the grandstand and swallow the whole traitorous group.
I thought the RINO’s liked the Demonrats!
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