Posted: Wednesday, 07 January 2009 11:24AM
We're Gonna Have A Party
Steve Corbett Reporting
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
You’re invited!
Get ready for the first-ever gala “Inaugural Brawl” on “Corbett.”
Everybody’s invited to participate in our live democratic dust-up of free speech and political punch on WILK News Radio.
Most of you won’t be headed to Washington to join the celebration surrounding Barack Obama’s inauguration.
Most of you aren’t sufficiently politically connected to get tickets for any of the official inaugural balls, the swearing-in ceremony or even the parade.
Since politicians control most of the ticket distribution, you have to be in the loop to qualify.
Most Americans – even those who voted for Obama – will not be included in this historic occasion because it’s business as usual in Washington. Despite Obama’s solemn promise to change the way things get done in the nation’s capital, the hustle continues.
That’s why we’re celebrating good times. C’mon! We’re gonna have a party.
And the “Inaugural Brawl” welcomes everyone. We’re not exclusive and elite and pompous like the Democrats.
You can wear your pajamas to the gala event. Come attired in your underwear or just a black tie. You can even show up in your birthday suit.
Just turn on your radio at 3 p.m. on January 20th and get ready to share the excitement and joy of having a new president, a new vice president and new cabinet secretaries to keep us talking for the next four years.
Anything can happen on Inauguration Day and probably will.
That’s why I’m giving you advanced notice.
Republicans, Democrats, independents, Greens, Libertarians and worse are welcome to appear on the air unannounced. Yet, although everyone’s invited, I’m going to issue a few special invitations.
Maybe Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will call. Maybe Ralph Nader will want to party hearty with the people. Maybe Michael Jackson will moon walk his way into our “Inaugural Brawl.”
I’ll do my best to get to their people and try to get them to check in with us on this great day.
I’ll even call Chicago boss Richard Daley, the mayor of that great city that created Obama and who is married to my cousin, Maggie. He blew us off during the campaign, but maybe now that he’s with the winner he’ll have mercy on us little coal crackers in Northeastern Pennsylvania and grace us with an interview.
Don’t count on it, though.
I have a feeling that many of these Obama supporters are carrying grudges.
Still, you’d think that somebody on the Obama love train from our area would want to call to tell us what a big time we’re missing in Washington.
The problem is that other than a couple of guys whose names have surfaced from our area, I don’t know for sure who’s pulling out the tux for the big inaugural balls.
U.S. Rep Chris Carney will be an honorary congressional co-host for a sold-out bash held by the Creative Coalition, a collection of entertainment industry liberals with whom sourpuss conservative Carney normally would not want to associate.
My neighbor and U.S. Sen. Bobby Casey is also listed as a creative co-host.
But other than our area’s version of Regis and Kathie Lee, I’m not sure who else is going from the coal region.
I emailed Representative Paul Kanjorski’s office and asked for a list of names of people to whom my congressman has distributed tickets to balls, the swearing-in, etc. But so far I’ve received no response.
And I read in this morning’s paper that Casey received 20,000 requests for tickets and only handed out 393.
I plan to request the names of those ticket recipients this afternoon.
Nobody needs a ticket to participate in the “Inaugural Brawl,” though.
Come one.
Come all.
Even Joe Biden, that scrappy kid from Scranton, is welcome because, in Washington, people might have already forgotten who he is.
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