So where the hell is the President-Elect supposed to stay, the Motel 6?

Why should the cost of Barack Obama's accommodations until January 20 be an issue? But the press seems to be spending an inordinate amount of time cluck-clucking over the Hay-Adams. Today's exhibit is Jackie Calmes in the New York Times:

For all of the luxury of the Obamas’ temporary home — Hay-Adams suites cost as much as several thousand dollars a night — Mr. Obama clearly was not looking forward to the short residency there after nearly two years on the campaign trail. “Well, living in a hotel for two weeks, I kind of did that for two years,” he said.

Perhaps Ms. Calmes thinks that the prospective First Family would be more appropriately housed at a Motel 6 out at the airport. After all, they ARE Democrats and their pigmentation is unseemly. And I guess only "American Aristocrats" like the Bush family, with their stage ranches in Crawford and that bigass family compound in Kennebunkport, are entitled to stay wherever they want.