WP: Holding Keys to Power, Tuxes if Needed(Inauguration called coronation)

[DeepModem Mom]

Holding the Keys to Power, Tuxes if Needed
Concierges Prepare For Clients' Demands

By Maureen Fan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 2, 2005; Page C01


Second inaugurations tend to be relatively low-key affairs compared with the first go-round, but the most experienced concierge in Washington feels certain this one will be a blowout to rival its predecessor.

"We're not calling it an inauguration," said Jack Nargil, head concierge at the Hay-Adams Hotel, as he gazed across the street at the White House last week. "Because the president's supporters believe he has a mandate, there's going to be, in effect, a coronation."

Some of Nargil's fellow concierges agree and say they are preparing for four days of celebration that will have more of everything: more energy, more activity, more zealousness, more requests.

"You have to understand, the winners are coming to town," said Nargil, a registered Democrat and the longest-serving Washington member of Les Clefs d'Or, an international association of professionally trained concierges. The group's name translates as "the keys of gold."...


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41336-2005Jan1.html

[Catfight]

1. Whatever, Bush is still Bush, a little failure of a man. n/t

[JoFerret]

10. Total miserable failure

and that is how history will judge him.
imagine the significance of a gesture now - no coronation but a simple party and the money for Indonesia (or any one of any number of worthy recipients.)

[Chico Man]

2. Bush represents America at its worst

He will always be remembered for that.

[Demeter]

3. I'll Crown Bush!

Got a nice, cast iron griddle, right here!

[MurrayDelph]

9. Yes, but while you are doing it, can we holler:

"Not the president!"?



(edited for spelling)

[KoKo]

4. WaPo is just "thrilled" that America finally has a "Monarchy" they can be

proud of. Oh my...according to this DC is just Dizzy in anticipation of the Coronation...whereas they couldn't wait to diss and disparage the Clinton's. Nothing they or the Carters did in "low-keying" their inaugurations culled favor with the DC elite...they wanted Royalty and Dinasty, glitz and pizazz.

Well, they had to steal it again but the DC Crowd and the "elites" from all over the world don't give a crap about that. They can dress up and enjoy themselves...enjoying the spoils while the rest of us out here wait for the next shoe to drop in their madness to take the America that was founded on freedoms and the right to pursue happiness down into the gutter so they can step over us in their fur coats and tuxedos never seeing what they've trodden down. :puke:

[Supersedeas]

18. funny how the fat radio faces make like the Wash Elite are the Neo-Cons

enemy number one.

Let's say the opposite of reality and the sheeple in the hinterland will believe, believe, believe.

[HeeBGBz]

5. Grrrrrrr

The sinking feeling of democracy down the terlet just makes me ill.



The flaunting makes me angry.

[KittyWampus]

6. The Struggling Middle Class, Sinking Poor & Tsunami Victims Can All

eat cake.

[durablend]

15. Can't afford cake...

Rocks, twigs, and gruel will have to suffice.

[spooked]

7. "The winners are coming to town"? So we'll be there protesting?

I hope that poor guy still has his job at the end of the week

[shanti]

16. that means

that all the rest of us are...losers. whatta guy.

[Supersedeas]

22. winners? have the talking faces forgotten than the country is still

extremely divided.

[dansolo]

8. And they'll still be lousy tippers (n/t)

[Pithy Cherub]

11. May the bubbly be flat and the victory phyrric!

*'s coronation lacks loyal subjects...

[Ilsa]

24. Wouldn't that be great? If all the

special trimmings for the "coronation" were flat, tasteless, spoiled, or backordered?

Let them eat cocktail weiners.

[KayLaw]

12. Sickening

Bush is becoming more like Lord Farquaad every day.

[indepat]

13. Had I been among the first to use the "coronation" tag on the DU board?

[DeepModem Mom]

14. If so, indepat, you called it!

Maybe the appellation will spread --

[leftchick]

19. If you were...

I know I was a close second. One can't help but think in monarchy terms when it comes to his chimperial majesty**.

[indepat]

20. Even if unspoken, most on the DU board were surely thinking "coronation"

trapping are everywhere.

[NashVegas]

21. I Thought the Corronation

Happened December of 2000, but that's just me.

Some enterprising souls could have a blast with a little street theatre action.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

17. What's that old adage in Texas or maybe it's Tennessee

"When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas".

I hope all these Bushbots bring their flea collars with them!!!!

[Just Me]

23. Wait until his pro-corporatism (fascism), anti-democracy mandate,...

,...really takes hold.

Then, those desperate religious extremists and radical right-wingers will no longer be able to keep on their blinders.

Bush's sole madate is pro-corporatism. He doesn't really give a damn about gays, guns and abortion. He's just been using those divisive single issues to manipulate people.

He and his constituents have manipulated and abused the loyalty and trust of the American people.

A storm's brewin'.

[Ilsa]

25. George Washington, et al must be rolling over in their graves.

This is so antithetical to what they fought for.