White House Happy Hour??????
What a great thing to be known for: Happy Hour and the F word
Are we paying people to drink and curse now?????
(F) Bombs Away at: Rep. Steven LaTourette (R-Ohio)
(F) Bombs Away at: White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel
Yep, cursing was new and forbidden right up until him. In fact, before Emmanuel, white house staff would only say "gosh" and "shucks," as reverence for their place of work so great. Of course, that is when the White House was inhabitable by proper God-fearing folk that loved America.
Rahm Emanuel got a dose of his own medicine at last night's weekly bipartisan White House mixer for members of Congress.
Rep. Steven LaTourette (R-Ohio), one of only a handful of Republicans who made the cut for this week's happy hour, gave his old colleague one doozy of an F-bomb greeting. Emanuel couldn't have done it better himself.
With an impressively straight face, LaTourette walked up to Rahm and said something that began with "you mother" followed by a number of bleeped out expletives, according to eyewitnesses.
Emanuel responded by giving LaTourette a friendly punch in the stomach, followed by a handshake. LaTourette then introduced Rahm to his wife, Jennifer LaTourette, a lobbyist who used to be Congressman LaTourette's chief of staff before she became Mrs. LaTourette.
Emanuel, the former congressman turned White House chief of staff, is so famous for his way with four-letter words that President Obama joked at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner over Mother's Day weekend that Rahm is "not used to saying the word 'day' after 'mother.'" Obama also said, "For Rahm, every day is a swearing-in ceremony."
Besides LaTourette, the group of Republicans who were invited to the White House last night included Reps. Jo Ann Emerson of Missouri, Tom Cole of Oklahoma, Zach Wamp of Tennessee and Erik Paulsen of Minnesota. (But only LaTourette managed to curse out, or out curse, Emanuel.)
Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, as usual, made an appearance. The president gave no formal speech but chatted and posed for photos with the members and their guests as they sipped champagne and cocktails and nibbled on bite-sized tuna tartar and other passed hors d'oeuvres.
Among the Democrats who were there last night were Reps. John Tanner of Tennessee and his wife, Betty Ann; Joe Courtney of Connecticut; David Price of North Carolina; Jane Harman of California; Diana DeGette of Colorado and her daughter, Raphaela Lipinsky DeGette, president of college Democrats at Brown University; Brad Ellsworth of Indiana; and Eliot Engel of New York, who tried to bend Obama's ear on the Middle East.
By Mary Ann Akers
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