The Enlightened Despot

K-Lo has been denied press credentials for the innauguration:

Here is my press-credentials-DENIED e-mail notice from the inaugural committee:

Thank you for applying for media seating for the 2009 Inaugural Swearing-In Ceremony.   Due to unprecedented demand for the limited number of seats, we are unable to accommodate your request for seating on the Capitol grounds.

While tickets are required for seating within the interior perimeter of the Capitol, the Inaugural Ceremony can be viewed without tickets from the National Mall, where video screens and speakers will be placed to convey the sound and images.

Your humble correspondent is headed for that interior perimeter - though, I must admit, not on the strength of press credentials. Still, it feels good.

We here at the Enlightened Despot don’t like to toot our own horns, but remember when liberal America was terrified of Sarah Palin? I know it sounds silly now, but really, it was happening. All over the place. The founding issue of this blog was telling people to chill. So, humble as we are, we can’t help but feel just a tiny bit smug about this:

Now, Palin’s qualifications to be president rank as voters’ top concern about McCain’s candidacy - ahead of continuing President Bush’s policies, enacting economic policies that only benefit the rich and keeping too high of a troop presence in Iraq.

My question: when she’s done reducing the Republican Party to a laughing-stock, does she get to keep the clothes?