Bush's Depressing Goodbye Party: One Staffer Gets Job At Abercrombie

[Richardo]

My man Jason Linkins:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/19/bushs-depressing-goodbye_n_159197.html

Washington DC's social scene is in full swing this weekend, with events and galas and fetes and soirees and makeout sessions between Christopher Hitchens and Andrew Sullivan. It's a level of excitement that Washington only occasionally sees. But it's not just the inauguration of Barack Obama that people are celebrating -- it's also the end of the Bush administration, and Sunday night, President Bush and his friends celebrated the end of his term with a party of their own at Glen Echo Park. Slate went, for some reason, and their account makes the whole thing sound like the most depressing event in the world.

The party, dubbed "Crossing the Finish Line" and held in the park's giant Spanish Ballroom, was organized by outgoing White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and his predecessor, Andy Card.

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Apparently some of the more climate-controlled venues had been taken. "There weren't a lot available," said Card. "There weren't a lot of bands available, either."

So, basically, everyone was rubbing against each other for warmth and totally unemployed. Just contemplate the multitudes that are contained in this single depressing sentence: "One outgoing Treasury employee had already landed a job as a manager at Abercrombie & Fitch." The Great Gatsby could have ended with that line.

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"The Great Gatsby could have ended with that line." :rofl:

[JimGinPA]

1. Hopefully Many Of Them Will End Up In Nice Climate-Controlled Federal Prisons Soon

B-)

[pnorman]

6. or Gitmo, where climate-control is one of the methods of "enhanced interrogation".

n/t

pnotman

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Pathetic is the only word that comes to mind...

Like survivors of Custer's Last Stand celebrating their victory over Sitting Bull and the Lakota-Northern Cheyenne at Little Big Horn.

[Richardo]

3. All I could think of was the birthday party in 'Office Space'

[mitchum]

4. "Tender is the Night" did end with a very similar line

I think Linkins is mixing up his Fitzgeralds

[Richardo]

12. Entirely possible

He's hilarious, but kinda casual with stuff sometimes.

[formercia]

5. The Hothouse

A perfect venue:

http://www.amazon.com/Hot-House-Inside-Leavenworth-Prison/dp/0553560239

[Stinky The Clown]

7. Hahaha .... The Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo

Glen Echo is on the National Register and the Spanish Ballroom is a conserved building. Kept as it was. Including no heat and no air!

Glen Echo is a former amusement park. The Spanish Ballroom goes back to at least the previous turn of the century. But is is HARDLY a desirable location for an event in subfreezing weather! It was, no doubt, very damned cold in there!

And very fitting that the repubics were left to huddle in the cold on the edge of town as the rest of the country cheered the new guy.

[Arugula Latte]

8. Oh, how far the Mighty, Cocky, Arrogant and Corrupt have fallen

I frickin' love it.

[Th1onein]

9. Bush thought he would become dictator....

He can't believe it all ended like this.

Let the investigations BEGIN!

[WinkyDink]

10. Maybe some could get jobs as door-bangers in Miami.

[FatDave]

11. That guy must've lied on his resume.

You know, about where he'd worked for the past few years.

[Stevenmarc]

13. They crossed a lot of other lines before the finish line.