Well, well, well. After ripping the executives from Detroit's Big 3 a new one [2] for taking their corporate jets to DC on the way to beg for bailouts, (causing them to carpool [3] on their return trip to DC a month later), the fat cats of the Democrat party show just how hypcritical they are [4].
For the wealthy, Tuesday's inauguration is the dream party: a chance to rub elbows with the similarly rich and powerful, to become part of a historic moment, and (most importantly), to get access to the man of the moment.
It also is a chance to drown their financial sorrows in an emotional wave of optimism.
Yet it may come as a surprise that at a time of financial crisis and Green correctness, many of the wealthy are choosing to arrive by private jet.
According to an article in Bloomberg, as many as 600 private jets were expected to touch down in D.C. for the inauguration [5]. The runway at Washington Dulles was closed Saturday to allow as many as 100 small planes to park. And the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said it expected a total of 500 small jets to land from Jan. 16 through Jan 21.
"That would set a record, topping the 300 the airport accommodated for President George W. Bush's 2004 inaugural," an Airports Authority says in the article. ...
But I'm SURE all of those green conscious Democrat travelers paid for their carbon offsets before they made the trip. Right?
And I'm SURE that we're hear all about this in the news coverage, right?
Hopenchange.
