Jesus and Jack Daniel's (two GOP hot spots)

[donsu]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6831183/site/newsweek


In search of the Bush cultural footprint on the capital: a visit to the hot church and the hot bar


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THE BAR. Outside Smith Point, the line starts forming an hour or so before midnight. Preppy boys in polo shirts with upturned collars and preppy girls showing their pearls and cleavage want to see if "the girls," as the Bush twins are known, have shown up. Many nights they are not disappointed. In the spring of 2004, after graduating from Yale and the University of Texas, Barbara and Jenna moved to Washington to help their father's re-election campaign. They began going to Smith Point to unwind with friends after work.

(what work?)

Smith Point has become a clubhouse for low-level administration staffers, who tend to have wealthy fathers and know each other. Still, the scene is slightly awkward. When they started coming, the Bush girls fit in easily with the Southern fraternity boys and the Texas Rich children of Bush-Cheney officials and contributors. "Now," says a regular, "it's the two girls on one side and a whole lot of people on the other side and then some people in the middle who are trying to act like they don't care at all that Jenna and Barbara Bush are in a room with them." The average age is twentysomething. An older crowd showed up after the election, when the top echelon of the Bush campaign stopped by. The waitresses wore BUSH-CHENEY '04 hats.

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THE CHURCH. The old Washington establishment was fairly secular. Now and again, the powerful might take in a sermon on Christian humility, but wearing it on your sleeve was frowned upon. The Bush crowd is much more open and eager about its churchgoing. The Falls Church is an interesting hybrid. It is old and established, but worship there is not subdued. Hymns are not pounded out on an organ but rather rocked out by an amplified electric "praise band." The faithful, many of them dressed down in jeans and T shirts, sing along with gusto, dance in the aisles and raise their hands to the sky.

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Worshipers include Bush's former White House counsel and Attorney General-designate Alberto Gonzales, and CIA Director Porter Goss and his top staff. Conservative press luminaries include former CNN "Crossfire" host Tucker Carlson and Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard and Fox News. Michael Gerson, the president's speechwriter, is close to the rector, the Rev. John Yates. "I pray often for Michael and his staff," says Yates, "because they have the president's ear."

(can you see Tucker dancing in the isles?)
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oh, oh, oh - you gotta read this:

It can be a little hard to separate church from state at Sunday services. In a sermon, Yates once analogized the relationship between Christ and the apostles to that between Bush and Press Secretary Scott McClellan. Even so, the rector tries not to appear too partisan. He has visited the White House under both Democrats and Republicans. "We love both Democrats and Republicans. "We love both the Clintons and The Bushes" he says.

(can man Yates has such a silver tongue - give him an award)

[Clark2008]

1. Now, don't be putting down Jack Daniels

Most of those preppy college kids wouldn't know a decent shot of charcoal whiskey if it hit 'em in the face. :)

More than likely, those people are drinking some top-dollar champagne with their mega bucks. ;)

[donsu]

2. a more lively, lifefull hot church or bar can be found in South Beach

(Miami) any day of the wk. then the D.C. hot spots. :)

[mdhunter]

3. Korbel was the official "champagne" of the festivities.

Not exactly top dollar, but, not exactly champagne either given that it's produce in the States.

[finecraft]

4. Combine them into the "First Baptist Bar and Grill"

Just like Tim Wilson's song:

Well, the church burned down and no one knew
what Penecost Baptist was gonna do
the Sunday brimstom got so dadgum hot
in burned up a church bus in the parkin' lot

In a panick the reverend Dr. White
called up an ex-member than hadn't lived right
he owned Joe's beer joint right across the fence
it's the same Joe's he'd preached against

he said I don't really want to be a hipocrit
I got a Sunday school class that's about to shit
we're all excited about revival week
and moved by the spirit so to speak

with all the souls we saved and the money we spent
we thought God told us to sell that tent
I got a famous evangilist supposed to come
and done run out of chairs, will you loan us some?

Joe says hell you can just use the whole dang place
A9 on the jukebox "Amazing Grace"
I ain't supposed to open because of them blue laws
but we'll open tonight if it's allright with y'all

Preacher said well I reckon that'd be OK
the good Lord works in mysterious ways
I was gonna talk about Joshua, Judges and Ruth
and I reckon I can do it from the DJ booth

At the First Baptist Bar and Grill
it's the only church in the bible belt that smells like a whisky still
not a stained glass window anywhere in site,
just a blood-stained floor and neon lights,

and the communion wine in here is always chilled.