On U Street, more like New Year's than a new era

Inauguration? What inauguration? Saturday night on U Street brought a mood that was closer to a New Year's Eve than the jubilant, celebratory Obama love-in of four years ago. I saw a handful of people wearing Obama buttons and ski hats, plus some guys on the sidewalk selling reusable bags bearing the likenesses of the president and first lady, but everything was largely apolitical.