2/28/2005
Bush: Fiddling While Rove Pours Gas on Rome
No matter what you think about Bush, you've got to admit the guy has nothing in common with people who actually work for a living.
For instance, while he's looking at a budget that could gut a number of entitlement programs, while he's trying to eliminate Social Security, while he's trying to prevent universal health care, he's throwing dinner parties like this one for the nation's governors: (Froomkin)
Accompanying the wild rice soup with pheasant, the White House served the Patz & Hall Chardonnay "Alder Springs" 2003 (about $55 a bottle), which the winery describes as "just a little less fruity than it is big and bombastic. . . . It trades first on toast and minerality, and it shows a fair bit of heat in the finish."Say, remember when Candy Crowley inferred that John Kerry was out of touch because he ordered green tea at a restaurant? In retrospect, kind of funny. Okay, maybe not.
Accompanying the tenderloin of beef in a Texas marinade, the White House served the Caymus Cabernet "Napa" 2002 (about $80 a bottle), which one reviewer described as "solidly fruity at its heart [ed: emphasis mine. But it helps if you imagine W when you read it. For the next phrase, it's hard for me to stop picturing Condi in her dominatrix outfit.]. . . quite ripe, fairly full in the mouth and surprisingly supple."
Then, with the wild raspberry apple pie and cinnamon ice cream came a dessert wine, the Bonny Doon Muscat "Vin de Glaciere" 2003 (about $18 a half-bottle). The vineyard says it has "racy and exaggerated notes of apricot, elderflower and rampant pineapple-ocity" that "sent shivers down our spines."
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