According to an entry posted this morning at the Mother Jones Blog:On the night before Barack Obama is sworn in as the nation's 44th President, his inaugural committee will host a series of dinners honoring public servants it deems champions of bipartisanship. To be feted are Vice President-elect Joe Biden, Colin Powell, and John McCain, whom Obama vanquished last November. At the McCain dinner, the GOP senator, who managed to suppress his bipartisan tendencies during the hard-fought 2008 campaign, will be introduced by one of his closest Senate confidants: Senator Lindsey Graham. But McCain's No. 1 booster during the last year will not be among those hailing McCain. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, his controversial running-mate, will not attend the dinner, Bill McAllister, a Palin spokesman tells Mother Jones.
The article further states:
Was she even invited? "I don't know if she was invited," McCallister says. Don't know? How could that be? It's hard to miss an invitation from a presidential inauguration committee. For its part, Obama's inaugural committee has declined to say whether an invitation was sent to Palin. Repeated phone calls to its press office produced no answer to this simple question.
Meanwhile, Linda Kellen, at Celtic Diva's Blue Oasis is continuing to report the news, and investigate Palin's weird stance on her responsibility for what will probably cost Alaskans about $175,000,000.00 this coming year, in President-elect Obama's economic stimulus package:
"I heard today from a DC contact that you were right-on about the Obama stimulus money and Palin's refusal to request our fair share. I was told that the state had about $325 million coming through the package but Palin only asked for $150 million."
Maybe she's too busy getting ready for her appearances, being promoted by Team Sarah, after the inauguration, at National Right To Life events in the Washington DC area. Hey, what's $175,000,000.oo for Alaska infrastructure compared to posing for fundraising pictures next to destroyed fetuses?