Don't look for the newly re-inaugurated President and Vice President dancing the night away at the Environmental and Clean Energy Inaugural Ball on Thursday night. Although both Bush and Cheney have been cordially invited to attend (see invitation, below), they'll more than likely be seen at one of the affairs underwritten by the Nuclear Energy Institute, which has kicked in $100,000 to help pay for the $40 million extravaganza, reports the Washington Post (the Post, by the way, has contributed a similar $100K sum).
But that's a drop in the oil drum compared to Boone Pickens, ChevronTexaco, Cinergy Corp., ExxonMobil, Ford Motor Co., Hunt Oil, Occidental Petroleum, Southern Co., and other fossil-fuel and nuclear energy companies -- each up which has coughed up the maximum allowable $250,000 to see Bush and Cheney safely re-ensconced in the White House for another four years. (Click here for the most up-to-date list of donors.)
But take solace: A quarter million doesn't buy what it used to.
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