Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterNo Room at Blair House for the Obamas? Yep -- That Australian Guy Will Be There.
Published 1/7/2009 by Al Kamen at Wash Post Federal Page
The veil is lifted. We now know who is booked at Blair House, kicking President-elect Barack Obama and his family to the waiting list and across Lafayette Square to the Hay-Adams Hotel.
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