Laura Bush to Skip Tea Time With Moore

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON - It might have seemed a way to thaw a sometimes chilly relationship between the Bush administration and former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore. The ousted judge would sit down with the first lady for a spot of tea.

But Laura Bush's spokesman says she isn't attending Saturday's First Ladies Inaugural Tea, featuring Moore as the speaker, and wasn't even invited. The event's organizer insists she was invited and that the White House had told her Mrs. Bush would stop by.

"We're praying she'll be with us," said Merrie Turner of Fairfax, Va., who is footing the bill for the event at a Washington hotel honoring congressional wives in addition to Mrs. Bush.

Although President Bush (news - web sites) and Moore are both conservative Republicans, their somewhat cool relationship stems from Moore's refusal to follow a court order requiring him to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the Alabama judicial building. The standoff cost Moore his job.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050118/ap_on_go_pr_wh/inauguration_roy_moore

[Dr.Phool]

1. Maybe she's going to have a beer

With Michael Moore instead.:toast:

[MADem]

12. HA!!!!!!!!

When I saw the headline, that's the Moore I was thinking of!

[saigon68]

2. They are both waiting for JayZeus to make an appearance at the Coronation.

See how pious and faithful they are in their religious beliefs. The same beliefs that tie them together hand and glove.

[demnan]

3. LOL!

At first I thought Michael Moore! I can't image him being a tea type though.

What is she saying, she wasn't invited to a First Ladies Inauguaral Tea? I don't think she can get away with that.

[leveymg]

9. Grace Slick Was Invited to Have Tea With Tricia Nixon in 1969 - Hoped

that the President would stop by so she could spike his cup with LSD. She thought a turned-on Dick Nixon would be a groovy guy who would promote world peace. I don't think it ever came to pass. But, who knows? Kissinger and Gen. Haig did order that the briefcase containing the nuclear launch codes be kept away from Dick after he started talking to the portraits of the presidents in the West Wing.

I'm not sure even Michael Moore would be capable of a prank of similarly enormous proportions. The thought of MM in the same room with W is intriguing.

[Ken Burch]

21. Also, at some point in the Nixon years, Abbie Hoffman was invited

to a class reunion(I think it was Julie's)being held at the White House.
And I think he actually showed up.

[lavenderdiva]

4. If its called the 'First Ladies' Inaugural Tea', it seems highly

unlikely that she wouldn't be invited. Also, since the title is pluralized, are other first ladies going to be there?

[rkc3]

7. I was wondering the same thing - 1st Ladies Tea and Not Invited

Then it's not a 1st Ladie's Tea if the 1st Lady (term used loosely here) isn't invited.

Maybe I'll have a super bowl party in two weeks and not show the super bowl - makes sense huh?

[Supersedeas]

10. the WH is so full of crumpets--maybe Kidd Rock will stand in for her

Word is: he wasn't booked either.

[AuntiBush]

13. He was booked,

then quitely X-ed out after the Bushite team found Bush-Bashing in one of his lyrics. Just read the story the other night.

Surely Kidd Rock like cares.

[MADem]

16. Specifically, he had a song out years and years ago

...that talked about pimping out ole Bar.....heh, heh.

He's still an asshole. An asshole who wears the flag as a goddamn PONCHO, but no one says squat about that, they're too worried about Janet's floppy titty with the bottle cap on it!!!! Flag Ponchos=good; floppy bottle-capped titties=THREAT TO AMERICA.

Welcome to Boooosh world!

[MADem]

14. CRUMPET=fancy name for an ENGLISH MUFFIN

People are so disappointed when they learn this....some folks have this idea that they are some sort of fancy pastry....it's a goddamn ENGLISH MUFFIN, and more like a knock-off, lousy, supermarket brand ENGLISH MUFFIN...lacks that Thomas's crunchy goodness!!!!

[Megahurtz]

18. I like crumpets.

:)

[muriel_volestrangler]

19. No, I don't think an english muffin is the same as a crumpet

Crumpets have large holes in their upper side, which go all the way down until you reach the flat base (in which the holes are extremely small). A crumpet is quite rubbery before toasting. An english muffin, from what I remember (since they aren't called that in England) is much closer to bread.

[Megahurtz]

25. You're right,

and crumpets are tastier that English muffins.:9

[MADem]

27. Thomas's English Muffins are FAMOUS for their nooks/crannies

...and they are rubbery before toasting, but they toast up nice and crisp. The supermarket versions are also rubbery, the holes are usually not as big as Thomas's (which are HUGE), but they have the consistency and identical appearance of a crumpet. My Scottish pal calls them crumpets, in fact.

I lived in UK for many years, and had many a crumpet... with devon creme, with strawberries, with jam....crumpet, crumpet, crumpet!!! I really thought, before I got there, that they were something fancy...I was quite disappointed that it was nothing more than a supermarket brand English Muffin!!!!

[koopie57]

23. wouldn't she be the host? eom

[rurallib]

5. Maybe the other first lady, Condi, can go

W is her husband, you know.

[pokercat999]

6. Crap that picture just flashed in my mind

and now I've lost my lunch. Dang it rurallib, thanks for nuttin.....lol

[lavenderdiva]

8. ouch! probably accurate though... n/t

[AuntiBush]

15. LOL

:) I needed that. Thank you!

[underpants]

11. LOL Hahaha *smack**smack**smack* in the fundies's faces

You have BEEN USED!!!!!!!

[Historic NY]

17. LOL, how can they have a first Ladies tea w/o pickles.?..........n/t

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

20. Maybe not THAT Moore... Michael, maybe? or Roger?

[Anakin Skywalker]

24. Roger Moore

would be perfect for Tea Time! He's English, ya know. :)

[Ken Burch]

22. Darn...For a minute there I thought it was tea with MICHAEL Moore.

'Course, Mike woulda brought a can of Lipton Iced with Lemon. And maybe some donuts.

[hatrack]

26. Hey Thumpers! Starting the get the picture? Do you understand now?

You're OK in the heat of an election, when your all-'Murcan gay-hatin' church-goin' "freedom"-defendin', Precious-Moments-attendin' dumb asses are needed at the polls. But after that, don't call the Bushes, they'll call you.

You did hear that His Chimperial Highness said this week that he's not going to push the gay marriage amendment, didn't you? He's just saving it up for 2006 so he can get your collective dumb ass out to the polls ONE MORE TIME - and the day after that he won't even know your name.

Dumbasses!