Inaugural Pissing Contest

I'm sympathetic to the view that it's a dubious move by the White House to ask the District to draw funds from their homeland security budget to pay for the extra security required by the inaugural festivities. WashPost gets it right. Put it this way: Why should the residents and many professionals working in and around DC be any less safe in order to pay for a second-term inauguration? Especially when the nation's at war.