Check out the official list of donors and the entertainment.

Big donor companies include ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco, Cinergy Corp, Ford Motor, Occidental Petroleum, Pfizer, TimeWarner, Ford, UPS, Mariott, and Wachovia. Energy, drugs, cars, post office replacement, hotel/convention, and banks. Big surprise. Look for more laws to let them do what they want.

The inauguration and last year’s party nominating conventions are not covered by the new restrictions in campaign finance laws, of course. They all have reasons to give. According to CBS Market Watch:
“So the individual donations are not limited to $2000, and corporations can contribute. The administration limited single contributions this year to $250,000, more than twice as much as the $100,000 limit imposed for the 2001 inaugural. The committee has received 49 donations of the maximum $250,000, with most of these top-dollar gifts coming from Corporate America, including three from different arms of the hotelier Marriott. The money is collected to help pay for nine official balls, a fireworks display, the swearing-in and a parade. If the $40-million cost estimate, which does not include the cost of security, proves accurate, Bush second inauguration will be the most expensive in history.”

Then there’s the entertainment. Ok, so I’m not shocked to see Dale Earnhardt Jr, The Gatlin Brothers, or assorted country folk. But Kelsey Grammar, a thoroughly bamboozled Don King, Gloria Estefan, Ruben Studdard and .. the Temptations? John Lennon would cry, he would up and cry to see Beatlemania, a cover band, on the agenda.

More Bush Supporters – some surprising to me… like Clint Eastwood. For cripes sake – Dennis Hopper?

Heard about the new Laura Bush look? She’s moving away from the matronly and into a queen-empress sort of style for the coronation inauguration ball. She’ll be wearing an “ice blue and silver embroidered tulle V-neck dress with a matching duchess satin coat by Seventh Avenue designer Oscar de la Renta.” And once again, is she on drugs? I’m not sure what exactly, other than Scientology, might make someone’s eyes so bright and shiny.

The Bush girls will be outfitted in elegant princess-wear skank – no Princess Di look for them. Hey, we’re going for a new aristocracy here – just right of Waco.