Balloon Juice - Good Grief

I found this amusing:

Watching President Bush’s second inauguration in person: Priceless? Think again.

Tickets to the president’s swearing-in, thousands of which were handed out free by congressional offices, are now commanding hundreds of dollars from scalpers who are hawking them on Web sites like eBay and in the classified section of local papers.

Entrepreneurs are also selling tickets to the inaugural balls, parade and other events at steeply marked-up prices. Ball tickets that were available for $150 through the Presidential Inauguration Committee (search) are now selling for about $1,000, for example.

It is not illegal to sell tickets to inaugural events, said Ben Porritt, a spokesman for the Presidential Inauguration Committee. And this is not the first inauguration to see a brisk business in resale of tickets.

$1,000.00 to stand in the freezing rain with 50,000 other people. No, thanks.

We are learning that “working class” means “white” for way too many people.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Reality always gets a vote in the end.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

“In this country American means white. everybody else has to hyphenate.”

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

You know he’s going to shit a cat.

The revolution will be supervised.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Too little, too late, ftfnyt. fuck all the way off.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Republicans in disarray!

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

Good Grief