U.S. News, "Washington Whispers": Update on the Bush girls

[DeepModem Mom]

No White House Wedding Bells Yet

What's the start of the wedding season without a good rumor about the Bush twins? But we hear a White House ceremony is not likely just yet. Despite whispers that Jenna 's beau, Henry Hager, popped the question during her trip to his parents' Richmond, Va., hometown over Christmas, we're assured that there are no wedding plans at this point. Ditto for Barbara, who's been spotted with some sparkle on her wedding-ring finger. Instead, we hear that the twins are deeply committed to their jobs and causes. Jenna teaches at a Washington charter school, and Barbara just returned from working with AIDS pediatric patients in South Africa. In fact, Barbara's part of the first lady's official delegation this week to Liberia and Ghana to push for education for women and AIDS prevention.

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/whispers/articles/060123/23whisplead.htm

[woodsprite]

1. Wasn't there a post here some time ago about using a wedding

in the White House to deflect from the scandal news that is bubbling out of the media pot?

[PunkPop]

2. Henry Hager?

Is he the coke dealer she was fleeing from?

Or is that the other one? I can't keep the Bush twins and their "causes" straight.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

3. "...deeply committed to their jobs and causes..."

I'm touched. Truly, deeply, really friggin' TOUCHED.

[CottonBear]

6. They're deeply committed to marrying wealth and never working again. nt/

[CrazyOrangeCat]

10. Jenna looks like she's ready to jump the photog at any second n/t

[jmowreader]

13. Laura obviously taught her daughters to dress formally

Draw a line at the shoulders.

Everything below the line is drapery fabric.

Everything above the line needs redone. Nude lips in formal dresses?

[Hobarticus]

14. Is this photo a joke?

I mean, this is quite possibly the worst formal portrait I've ever seen, if it's meant to be one, and that's being kind. Meet Slouch and Stiff, the Bush twins.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

20. LOL !

Slouch and Stiff.

By God, that just might stick if we use it enough!

:7

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[Hobarticus]

26. Just goes tah show...yuh cain't buy class

But "tacky and cheap" is free for the taking.

[chat_noir]

4. All in the family

Fortunately for Henry, Jenna’s dad approves of the Hager name. In May, President Bush nominated John Hager to be assistant secretary for special education and rehabilitative services, a position in the Department of Education.

Henry Hager, who has served as a White House aide, worked for Karl Rove’s team to help re-elect Bush.

http://www.styleweekly.com/article.asp?idarticle=9735

[FreedomAngel82]

30. Very interesting

I wonder what else he has been involved with.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. One must assume, then, that they're practicing abstinence.

You know, until marriage. I mean, if their dad is going to blow millions of my tax dollars are on that bullshit.

[WI_DEM]

7. But apparently they aren't too deeply committed to Bush's Iraqi cause

or else they would have enlisted by now. right?

[louis-t]

8. Three words:

Who...Friggin.....Cares?

[jmowreader]

12. Four words in rebuttal

"The White House Dog."

Remember when Scumbag Limbaugh had a television show (which tanked because...well, no one actually wants to LOOK at his sorry ass, even diehard freepers)? The asswipe mentioned Socks, the White House cat, and said, "do you know there's a White House dog too?"

Then he put a picture of a preteen Chelsea Clinton on the screen.

At that instant, Limbaugh gave every Democrat in the world permission to rip the living SHIT out of any Republican president's children.

We as liberals are supposed to be above that. We're supposed to be nice. Fuck that. Nice got us a Chief Justice with three years on the Supreme Court. Nice got us Priscilla Owen. Nice got us George Bush as a two-term president. It's time to stop being nice.

[FreedomAngel82]

31. If you don't care so much

why are you in the thread? As I've said before: don't like it? Don't read it!

[LiberalEsto]

9. Wake me up when they go to boot camp,

since their warmongering idiot father is so nuts about having wars with other countries.

[MadHound]

11. I love this little gem

"Instead, we hear that the twins are deeply committed to their jobs and causes." What "jobs and causes"? Is that the new code for really liking to party each and every night?

[TahitiNut]

22. Maybe that's 'code-speak' for ...

... blow-jobs and causeways. :shrug: (If so, I'd raise my opinion of them.)

[Cleita]

16. They have jobs? Since when?

If I were that reporter I would check that out.

[TahitiNut]

18. Jenna still isn't listed on the staff at Elsie Whitlow Stokes ...

Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School

Clarence Bell-Alston
Josiane Blackman
Persephone Brown
Erika Bryant
Bobby Caballero
Alfredo Caceres
Fresia Cortés
Katelyn Crawford
Jonah Davenport
Neyom Dabet
Ana Maria Donado
Alex Economou
Patricia Galarce
Charles Golli
Lisa Healy
Robert Howard
Jo-Anne Hurlston
Cheryl Jones
Willa Jones
Kianna Keeling
Heruy Kiros
Jenna Landy
Christine Leighton
Monica Lesperance
Neeta Lobo
Mirta Meltzer
Linda Moore
Adrien Morel
Trisha Nakano
Chrystelle Panatier
Rosa Perez
Dora Porras
Claudia Rosas
Constanza Rosas
Krystal Shanahan
Veronica Tobar
Maribel Wan
Franklin Wassmer
Lydie Golli Yao-Paul


http://66.246.152.220/facultystaff.asp

(Lest anyone get the impression the school's site isn't updated, take a look at the "News" and you should discover that's clearly not the case. It's up-to-date, even to the point of making reference to this upcoming "Friday, January 20" and today, "Tuesday, January 17.")

[FreedomAngel82]

32. So where is she teaching?

Do they also tell their assistant teachers?

[undeterred]

28. Blow-jobs

And they're committed to them.

[regnaD kciN]

17. Jenna's a TEACHER? Not to be too snarky, but...

..."Move over, Mary Kay Letourneau!"

:evilgrin:

[Lisa]

19. don't be surprised if Jenna elopes! Bush's plans for her wedding ...

The ol' control freak wants his daughter to get hitched while the wedding party is standing in a creek! (Unless they are planning to have it in the dry season -- hot, arid conditions are so romantic! -- they had better be wearing gumboots.)


"He has stopped the truck this time to show off the "cathedral," a column of limestone steps that were carved by water but look handmade. A nearly perfect arch of branches roofs the long aisle. "I told my daughter, 'This is where the audience will sit,'" says Bush about some imaginary wedding in Jenna's future. "The audience will stand there. You and I will stand here, and the preacher will stand here." A gentle slip of water rolls over the steps and his cowboy boots. "Isn't it spectacular?" he says."

http://www.time.com/time/poy2000/mag/ranch.html

[anitar1]

24. In that case, let's pray for a flash flood. n/t

[SoCalDem]

27. "The audience "... A telling phrase

Normal people refer to people at a wedding as ...GUESTS!

[Lisa]

29. well-spotted!

I didn't even notice that particular choice of words, SoCalDem! But you're right -- it's pretty revealing, and I don't think they can attribute it to Bush's lack of vocabulary.

[Sugar Smack]

21. Not defending the princess or anything, but at THIS point

I'd do just about anything for another last name.

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[Sydnie]

23. The way daddy likes a photo-op, there is no way

Barb jr would be working for a cause like that without a photog to document it and shove it down our throats. I don't believe a word of that.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

25. You're right.

She's still partying hearty, you can bet on it.

She just holds her liquor better than sis.

And hangs on to her ID . . .