Corporate cash backs Bush inaugural bash.

Robert43 said:

What do America's
big companies get
for all that money?

Blues legend B.B. King performed Tuesday night at a private affair closed to the public, but NBC managed to get a camera inside — to capture politicians partying, courtesy of some of the biggest companies in America.

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Robert

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Would you rather it be tax payer money paying for the inauguration? Has it been different this time than any other?

But one congressman has no use for complaints about corporate-funded celebrations.

"Anybody who is against that obviously must be a communist," says Rep. James Gibbons, R-Nev.

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Ooh, someone played the communist card!

B.B. King. Groovy. He's got a great BBQ joint in Memphis too.

Dracil said:

Ooh, someone played the communist card!

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hahahaha, you'd THINK people would be over that by now.

BlessedMan said:

Would you rather it be tax payer money paying for the inauguration? Has it been different this time than any other?

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I don't think tax payers should have to pay. I think that in this time of high unemployment, war, outsourcing of jobs, and largely unaffordable health insurance, the administration, the one championing itself as the party of the common man, should be a little more modest. Bush already has a reputation of being a sock puppet to corporate America, and this just re-inforces it.

HumbleMan said:

I don't think tax payers should have to pay. I think that in this time of high unemployment, war, outsourcing of jobs, and largely unaffordable health insurance, the administration, the one championing itself as the party of the common man, should be a little more modest. Bush already has a reputation of being a sock puppet to corporate America, and this just re-inforces it.

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Yeah no doubt because we know of all those modest democartic parties that were thrown by the Hollywood Left

Yep, and all the money that the Clintons got for operating the White House Bed and Breakfast!

Dracil said:

Ooh, someone played the communist card!

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This is THE MOST expensive inaguration in the history of the US. This is one of the reasons I buy Blue http://www.buyblue.org/

BlessedMan said:

Would you rather it be tax payer money paying for the inauguration? Has it been different this time than any other?

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We did pay for the inauguration. Not to mention the 12 million dollar tab the DC area will have to cough up for security (I guess that was Bush's way of saying thanks for voting for the other guy).

Whistler said:

We did pay for the inauguration. Not to mention the 12 million dollar tab the DC area will have to cough up for security (I guess that was Bush's way of saying thanks for voting for the other guy).

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Are we to never have another inauguration then? Unless we win the war on terror within the next 4 years, which is highly unlikely, the next inauguration is going to require about the same amount of security.

How about having some of Bush's corporate backers to pay for the security. They seemed to have no problem paying for all those frivolous inauguration parties

Or better yet out of respect for the troops and their families why not tone down the celebration. Were in a war that he got us into on the basis of flawed intelligence where now thousands of troops have died, gee doesn't sound like cause for celebration to me.

If Kerry had won, there would have been just as much security precautions taken to protect the inauguration.

I guess there would have been different supporters of the events. I looked up some of Kerry's top donors from www.opensecrets.org (this doesn't include the 527 committees funds who raised far more for Kerry than Bush)

-University of California

-Harvard University

-Time Warner

-Goldman Sachs

-Citigroup Inc

-Microsoft Corp

-Skadden, Arps et al

-UBS Americas

-JP Morgan Chase & Co

-Wilmer, Cutler et al

-Stanford University

-IBM Corp

-Morgan Stanley

-Robins, Kaplan et al

-Viacom Inc

-Bank of America

-Piper Rudnick Llp

-Columbia University

-Akin, Gump et al

-Lawyers/Law Firms

-Securities & Investment

-Health Professionals

-Real Estate

-TV/Movies/Music

-Printing & Publishing

-Computers/Internet

-Misc Finance

-Hospitals/Nursing Homes

-Commercial Banks

-Non-Profit Institutions

-Insurance