Bush-Cheney Re-Crowned in Fortified Capital

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http://baltimorechronicle.com/012205WilliamHughes.shtml

Bush-Cheney Re-Crowned in Fortified Capital
“My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions or its officeholders...”
--Mark Twain

by William Hughes

Many activists were blocked, via barricades and police lines, from any possible viewing point.
photo by William Hughes
Washington, Jan. 20, 2005--Welcome to the quadrennial circus: “The Presidential Inauguration.” This was a $40 million show funded by fat cat contributors to the GOP. Package deals for the four days of partying, including hotel accommodations and tickets to one of the nine inauguration balls, cost participants as much as $250,000. However, the massive security operation for the re-crowning of George W. Bush as President and Dick Cheney as V.P., also hit the taxpayers with a $17.3 million bill.

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1. isn't this commentary?

shouldn't this be posted in the Editorials Forum?