Barbara, whose look could freeze not only the Potomac

[rodeodance]

http://wealthyfrenchman.blogspot.com/2006/12/oval-intervention.html

> Friday, December 08, 2006
>
> The Oval Intervention
>
> By MAUREEN DOWD
>
> It is not a happy mood in the Oval Office.
>
> Poppy is sobbing, his face in his hands, slumped in one of the yellow-and-blue striped chairs. Laura is screaming the words “Oscar de la Renta” and “rendition” into her cellphone, still seeing red after showing up at a White House gala in the same $8,400 red gown as three other women who did not happen to be first lady.
>
> Bob Gates is grim-faced, but not as grim-faced as Barbara, whose look could freeze not only the Potomac but the Tigris and the Euphrates. Scowcroft is over on the couch, trying to nap while Kissinger drones softly in his ear.
>
> And, of course, there is the Deprogrammer for the Decider, James Baker, perfectly suited in bright green tie and suited perfectly for his spot behind the president’s desk.
>
> The Council of Elders had hoped this Apocalypto moment wouldn’t be necessary. They had assumed that the scorching Iraq Study Group report would have the same effect on Junior as the bucket of cold water that Mr. Baker’s strict father, a lawyer known as “the Warden,” used to throw on his face to wake him up as a boy.
>
> But Junior is trying to wriggle away completely, offering a decidedly cool response to the attempt to yank him into the reality-based community. He rallied his last two allies — his English poodle and his Scottish terrier, Blair and Barney.

[acmavm]

1. You know, I can picture that in my mind and I don't think that it's

too far from reality.

[peacetalksforall]

2. Very good Summary! And 'Scottish terrier, Blair' could really

catch and stick.

[whistle]

3. Interesting that this Maureen Dowd piece is not in the New York Times

[diddlysquat]

5. It probably is in the NYT but we can't access it there without

paying so multiple bloggers have taken to putting it up on their sites so we can all read it.

This was REALLY good!

[mcscajun]

4. Bar -- the real reason there's no more water on Mars.

:evilgrin:

[napi21]

6. who's the velvet hammer?

the next paragraph is:
The Velvet Hammer is undeterred. He’s doing an all-out intervention, locking Junior and Barney in the little study next to the Oval. To stress the seriousness of the situation, they don’t give the president his feather pillow.

I do't recall hearing that before?

[rusty_parts2001]

7. James Baker III, slick as snot consigliere.