- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton exits a limousine in this AP photo
It’s one small data point but it says so much about the aggrandizement of the political class under the Obama presidency: According to General Services Administration data, the number of limousines in the federal fleet increased from 238 in fiscal 2008, the last year of the Bush administration, to 412 in 2010. Read the details at the Center for Public Integrity website.
The people can’t afford to buy cars? Let them drive limousines?
— James A. Bacon