Buy Blue

Okay, one short entry before bed. I talked about this site a bit in November when this was new, and I thought it was an interesting way to consider the ways that our spending impacts electoral politics in a fairly direct way. Buy Blue is an intriguing idea.

I was reminded of it again today after seeing the NYTimes article about the many many companies which have donated a quarter million dollars each to the presidential inauguration party. Here's the list and the article. You know when they're trotting out Laura Bush to defend their actions that they're at least aware they're in in sensitive PR territory. Not that it changes their behavior...