Chronicle dinosaur celebrates his ninth inauguration
Speaking of dinosaurs, Cragg Hines writes that this will be his ninth presidential inauguration. (Let's give the old guy a break and retire him, Jeff Cohen.) The column is typical Hines, as he frets that inauguration contributors are wealthy corporations and fat cats looking for favors (as if that's never happened before), with a Tom DeLay reference thrown in for good measure:
The fig-leaf explanation for all the largess is that somebody has to pay for the folderol, so better corporate treasuries and seriously overstuffed fat cats than the taxpayers. There's a point to that argument, but only if you're willing to throw out everything else we know about the generally corrupting influence of money on the political process (and remember that this is coming from someone who didn't think that McCain-Feingold was all that hot).The only thing worrying inaugural planners is that all the budgeted $40 million has not yet been wrung out of the wide swath of American business and industry whose bottom line has prospered over the last four years or whose prospects over the next four are entwined with government policy.
This is a case for Tom DeLay's maximum-extraction team, at least the ones who are not under indictment.
[snip]
Don't get me wrong. I like a party as much as the next person. And I will be out and about over the next week at a few of the better sort of soiree, which may have a corporate sponsorship. It will be, you must understand, solely in my inquiring-reporter role.
Hear the dinosaur ROAR -- as he's sampling the hors d'oeuvres.
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 01/16/05 10:11 AM | Print |
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