Obama Inauguration To Cost US $160,000,000; 4x Bush 2005 Inauguration

In 2005 the current administration put together an inauguration even for George W. Bush that topped just over $42 million. Democrats slammed Bush for “the most expensive inauguration in history” and called on him to cancel the traditional event due to the recent tsunami. Fast forward to 2009. Obama is poised to charge this country with a massive $160,000,000 party for his inauguration:

Carole Florman, spokeswoman for the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies, told the New York Daily News, which estimated the cost at $160m: “We’re always very budget conscious. But we’re sending a message to the entire world about our peaceful transition of power, and you don’t want it to look like a schlock affair. It needs to be appropriate to the magnitude of events that it is.“

“It needs to be appropriate to the magnitude of events”?! Once again: where’s the leftist outrage over this spending? Obama is about to quadruple the most expensive inauguration ever and not a peep out of the Dems. Not a word.

In 2005 they proposed canceling it over a natural disaster. But in 2009, with our country pouring hundreds of billions into a sagging economy, it seems a perfectly acceptable expenditure all because they don’t want it to “look like a schlock affair.”

Well why not set the theme of “spend, spend, spend” right from the very start?

Source: Malkin

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