Political junkie trivia: Rockefeller, Boxer, Kennedy do South Beach

[DeepModem Mom]

Roll Call: Mr. South Beach
By Mary Ann Akers
Roll Call Staff
November 10, 2005

Better watch your P’s and Q’s around Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.). He’s likely to be a bit grumpy over the next several weeks, until he settles in to his new way of life. The once-lean Senator has decided to start the South Beach Diet, and he’s not happy about having to give up many of the things he loves: ice cream, pineapple and chocolate, to name a few.

Rockefeller walked out of the Senate chamber Wednesday carrying a little piece of paper, written in his own chicken scratch, with the “dos” and many “don’ts” of the diet craze. Nosy reporters who asked about the piece of paper were told that the list came from the Senate’s latest novelist, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who, we hear, did the diet a few years ago. (It worked. She’s a lean, mean writing machine who will celebrate her 65th birthday, as well as the publication of the thriller “A Time to Run,” this Friday.)

Rockefeller said he hit critical mass Wednesday morning when he had to try on three different suits before he could find one that fit. He was afraid he wouldn’t be able to button his trousers. He told reporters he needed to lose 10 to 15 pounds....

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Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), who walked out of the chamber with Rockefeller, started digging in his West Virginia colleague’s pants pockets, demanding, “Give up the cookies!”

Rockefeller made the mistake of telling the assembled Fourth Estate that Kennedy had also done the South Beach Diet. “You’re not supposed to tell them that,” Fox News producer Trish Turner recalls Kennedy saying. Kennedy flatly refused to discuss his diet. He sort of threw up his hands and said he wondered what the Intelligence Committee was coming to, what with blabbermouths like Rockefeller around....

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[marbuc]

1. LOL

That's all I have to say, but that's funny. Not funny in a mocking way, but it's nice to see that our political leaders are actually human, and face the same problems as the rest of us.

[DeepModem Mom]

2. Yep -- and sit around discussing their weight problems and diets.

It would be fun to be a fly on the wall.