Update: It looks like the inaugural committee has apologized to the 4,000 ticket-holders that were turned away yesterday. And I didn’t mean to downplay the plight of being stuck in a security netherworld with little direction or clarity like many ticket-holders were (they even have a Facebook group!). It’s just Don Young…he just…makes me ANGRY!

When you consider that the District doubled in size yesterday, that the day’s inaugural festivities went off without any significant hitches (spare a few lost kids, some cold feet and a few gripes about crowds on Metro) is something to be cheered. Hell, we were all prepared for something approaching Inaugural-pocalypse, so the fact that no one we polled has had any major grievances is a success for the historic day.

Well, unless you’re Rep. Don Young. Roll Call is reporting that the Alaska Republican is apparently angry that some 4,000 ticketed attendees to President Obama’s swearing-in were turned away at the gates. Young is gathering signatures for a letter he intends to send to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, demanding an investigation and an explanation. “This was a failure in planning and organization and one that must be explained,” says the letter.

Failure? Given the sheer scope and size of yesterday’s events, 4,000 people with tickets getting turned away was a hiccup, if that. The million-plus other people who made it to and from the National Mall and parade route without much more than a long commute is a miracle of somewhat epic proportions. To put it in language that Young might better understand, the District and the many agencies it dealt with successfully moved double the entire population of Alaska in and out of an area only a few miles long and probably not more than a mile wide. The Nissan Pavilion can’t even get concert-goers to and from the venue in less than 3 hours every time Coldplay comes around — and it’s right next to a highway.

We are sorry for those that missed the festivities, but we imagine that they understand the logistical challenges faced with an event of this magnitude. As for Young, well, there’s not really much love lost between him and the District. It was just last year that he basically called us petulant and ungrateful subjects.

We’ll take solace in the fact that Young isn’t known as an even-tempered man. In fact, his outbreaks are so legendary that the interns in his office have even been known to pass around a survival guide of sorts that lists the things not to do if you want to stay on the congressman’s good side. We’d hate to have been the intern that had to deal with today’s ranting.