Yahoo! News - A wartime inauguration with an expensive peacetime tilt

Leave no fat cat behind.


"Those events, and dozens of other inauguration-related parties, reveal a Washington that is increasingly beholden to special interests. Among the inauguration's largest underwriters are oil giant Exxon Mobil, defense contractor United Technologies and corporate takeover specialist T. Boone Pickens. If this year's inauguration follows the script of four years ago, the private-jet terminals at Washington's airports will be overwhelmed, particularly on Sunday, when corporate executives head home after schmoozing with regulators and lawmakers."

T. Boone Pickens? Any relation to Slim Pickens.


Yahoo! News - A wartime inauguration with an expensive peacetime tilt