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Gimme smiles after the President takes his oath of office

This is crisis week for the DUmmies since NOT KERRY will be inaugurated this Thursday. Therefore it is interesting to read what the DUmmies intend to do in this THREAD titled, “How are you going to deal with Inauguration Week?” Anyway, I know for sure that the day AFTER the Inauguration the DUmmies will be posting threads on the impending impeachment of Bush despite the fact that both Houses of Congress are solidly Republican and the fact that they don’t have any grounds to impeach him on. But, fear not, political reality is not a DUmmie strong point and...

Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and his rock 'n' roll band, Capitol Offense, will headline the Jan. 20 inaugural ball hosted by Free Republic, a grass-roots conservative news, analysis and activism forum, in Washington. It's a repeat performance for the 49-year-old Mr. Huckabee, whose gubernatorial term expires in 2007. Because of the high-spirited show put on by his band at the 2001 Free Republic Inaugural Ball and Count the White House Silverware Party, guests left other inaugural balls in favor of the governor's less-formal gig, which, this year, honors the U.S. armed forces.

Along with Kennedy’s 1961 speech, Bush’s often overlooked speech was considered one of the two greatest inauguration speeches of the past 60 years... I wonder how few knew how strong the words would seem three years later. We have a place, all of us, in a long story--a story we continue, but whose end we will not see. It is the story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old, a story of a slave-holding society that became a servant of freedom, the story of a power that went into the world to protect but...