Bush delcares inaugration emergency

[WillieW]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/14/obamas-big-day-declared-emergency/

Inauguration declared 'emergency'
Unprecedented action helps D.C. cover costs


Dan Leaderman and Jon Ward THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Wednesday, January 14, 2009

President Bush on Tuesday declared the District a federal emergency area, clearing the way for the city to receive federal money to help cover the overwhelming cost of providing security for official inauguration events.

Officials said it was the first time the designation had ever been used for anything other than a national disaster, such as a hurricane or widespread flooding.

I wish he would have acted like this during Katrina

[midnight]

1. So the outgoing president has destroyed the ecomomy to the

point of having to declare an emergency so that the incoming president can have the same protections as everyother president? You know there is some "signing statement" declaring the whole thing something other than what it is being delcared. What is bush really declaring?