Let's Not Do Lunch

On suggestion for the 2012 Inauguration: cancel the congressional lunch.

While the lunch sounds like a nice opportunity for the new administration and Members of Congress to get off on the right foot, it just doesn't seem real friendly to the ordinary people who already spent hours and hours waiting in the cold for the parade from the Capitol to the White House.

This year, the parade started so late that it didn't finish until after dark. Most of the observers left long before those very cold and very patriotic high school band got a chance to walk down Pennsylvania Ave. I think even Michelle Obama had to leave so she could go get ready for the evening. Barack Obama and Joe Biden were almost the only ones left by the end.