Boogie with the Bushes - $1m

[emad]

Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Saturday December 11, 2004
The Guardian

It is the ultimate mini-break. But for $1m, it should be.
Being in Washington for George Bush's inauguration on January 20 will not come cheap. Even the bargain deals cost $10,000. Whether the $1m (£522,000) offer will give value for money is a moot point.

Those prepared to pay will get a four nights in the Jefferson hotel, four blocks from the White House, return travel from any city in the US, chauffeur and butler on 24-hour call for the duration, tickets for two to an unspecified inaugural event attended by Mr Bush, his-and-her diamond watches and designer outfits, spa treatment and monogrammed bath robes. But the real selling point, the hotel believes, is the day-after outing to Chicago by executive jet for a private tour of an exhibition devoted to Jacqueline Kennedy's White House years.

A number of other luxury hotels are touting inaugural week packages running from $75,000 to $200,000.

The modest $10,000 package at the Fairmont hotel includes a "faux" security detail of two agents in dark glasses and dark suits muttering into cufflink walkie talkies.

More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1371537,00.html

[Nikepallas]

1. The question is who would actually want to do that. I see hotels losing

on those inagural package.

[emad]

5. Account holders of Riggs Bank, relatives of General Pinochet...?

????Maybe a few potential coup plotters eying up remote African dictatorships.............

[Truman01]

8. There won't be an empty hotel room in the city.....................

There are plenty of repukes to go around and lots of money.

TC

[gnofg]

2. people's party-n/t

[peekaloo]

3. be buggered by the Bu$hies=free.

[flordehinojos]

4. meanwhile, the homeless roam in America!

If ... the $10,000 package or the $1 million dollar one aren't a page from the Bible's Sodom and Gomorrah, I don't know what is--but homosexual love is not!

[VivaKerry]

6. Mixing bushco with jackie-o......

proof that these greedy repugs don't know their asses from their heads.

[emad]

7. Free trip to Ronnie Raygun's grave maybe a less attractive

option?

[Florida_Geek]

9. LOL and what happens if Ohio flips to Kerry and Kerry is

the President elect..... LOL will the hotels return all that money...

[Javaman]

10. So the repukes that voted for this idiot think he's a regular guy, huh?

I don't recall any "regular" guy that I know charging that kind of cash to get into a party of his.

Most of the morons that voted for this idiot make as much in one year as this idiot is charging for one day.

Yeah, real regular guy, he and his have and have mores...

[realFedUp]

11. but how much are the lap dances from the Bush twins?

Are Star Jones and Donnie Trump organizing
the corporate angles to this one?

[Coventina]

12. Marie Antionette, "Let them eat cake"

is all I can think of when I read stories like this.

In fairness to Marie, though, it is now widely believed by most historians that she didn't actually say that.

[The Flaming Red Head]

13. self delete

[Aunt Anti-bush]

14. I wouldn't boogie with the bushes if they paid ME $1million

eom

[struggle4progress]

15. Bu$h. eom

[grasswire]

16. I can't wait to see Laura's gown this year

(snicker snicker)

Her first inaugural dress was pretty, but nearly everything she's worn since that day looks like they pulled down the draperies and sewed them up for her. Last week she dragged out that horrible frock from the Polish State dinner -- the beige brocade with the aqua bow right across the belly.