LOL Bush daughters tip $48 on comped $4,500 bill

[wndycty]

DUBYA DAUGHTERS' CLUB CRAWL

September 4, 2004 -- JENNA and Barbara Bush lived up to their hard-partying reputation while in New York supporting their pop, President Bush, during the Republican Convention, according to our spies around town.

The twosome kicked off a week of fun last Saturday at Chelsea hot spot 17, where, we're told, they partied with a group of 20 guests till the early hours. "Jenna seemed more wild than Barbara," said a witness. "They probably got through about three bottles of Level vodka, and they were given a tour of the club by management."

The conservative cuties' next big night was Wednesday at Sixth Avenue nightclub Avalon, where they were in the crowd smoking cigarettes and pumping their fists to Kid Rock, who was performing on stage.

"They drank $4,500 dollars worth of drinks — bottles and bottles of vodka," says a club insider. "Then, having been comped all the alcohol, they left a $48 tip. We thought 1 per cent was kind of outrageous, considering they are the president's daughters."
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http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix.htm

[NewHampshireDem]

1. Low-rent, classless bitches

But typical of the Repugs ... they don't understand what hard work really is, so they don't appreiciate it when they see it.

Sorry, but cheap tippers really piss me off. :grr:

[Warpy]

12. With THAT for a family

how could they possibly be anything but Texas trash? It's not like anyone has ever taught them respect for anything or anyone. They've gone through life like their witless father, never having to take resposibility for anything, never having to pay for their mistakes, and always feeling a sense of entitlement and never gratitude.

Those two haven't had a chance, so far. However, they're now at an age when lessons start to be learned. Their alcohol soak of a father never bothered to learn. We'll see if they do.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

17. The best tippers are working folks

at least that is what I've heard from my waitperson friends. They say they think it is because working people know how hard it is to make a dollar.

[Lex]

29. Yep, my SO is a lawyer but also a former waitress at a diner

and she always double-checks our tip to make sure it is generous.

Sometimes even when the service has been not-so-good, she tips well because she says that maybe someone called in sick and they're short-staffed, or the grill has someone out, or something like that.

She taught me to be conscious of tipping well too.

[MaineDem]

2. Oh man!

I know I shouldn't delight in their idiocy; I know it's not right. But I can't help it. They're unbelievable.

I also know I shouldn't say this but can you just imagine how the press would be all over this if the name in the article was Chelsea Clinton or one of the Kerry daughters?

[Catfight]

3. because they are the presidents daughters, it's a matter of no class.n/.t

[Julien Sorel]

4. Now this is the sort of thing

that a clever 527 could work with under the table. Just run the ads, or distribute fliers, in fundy-rich markets, discourage the Republican base a little. Yeah, it would start a furor, and Kerry could immediately denounce the ads and force them from the air, but the damage would be done, and Kerry would look like a good guy as a result. The Bush daughters are a potential liability with part of his core supporters.

[snippy]

6. I agree. n/t

[mrbill]

5. wtf, a $4500 bar tab..................

that's some serious drinking even for 20 guests.

wonder how much allowance laura and chimpy give the twins?

[blondeatlast]

14. Apparently, not enough... or enough etiquette education, either.

I've been a cocktail waitress. Poor tipping just burns me up!

:mad:

[Ilsa]

30. Admittedly, I didn't learn how to tip at a bar until

I was in my mid-twenties, and I was with a man who was not my date. I under-tipped and he showed my how to be more generous, but being relatively poor had a lot to do with my limited generosity. I don't undertip at bars any more (I rarely get to go any more), and I'm generous at restaurants also.

The twins should be more generous simply as a matter of the grace that's been afforded them. I suspect they tip poorly because they've witnessed their parents tipping poorly and they are too stupid to figure it out.

[Athletic Grrl]

53. It's doubtful they've seen their parents tip at all.

I doubt the Bush family has had to pay for a meal, clothing or any amenity bought at a grocery store since 1994. Hell, remember the story of HW and the supermarket checker scanners?

Laura is the only one of them who MAY have had interaction with people in customer service earlier in her life. They have no clue and passed that ignorance along to their daughters.

[Th1onein]

50. I used to be a single mother and worked as a waitress.....

My daughter is working as a waitress and is trying to get through college. I don't go out to eat or to party without having enough money to tip 50% of the check. I know some people would think that that is going a bit too far, but I think that it's just making up for others who don't tip. As far as I'm concerned, if I can afford to go out to eat and have someone wait on me, I can afford to tip generously.

[GiovanniC]

28. $225 Per Person

That does seem like a lot. I'm not much of a drinker, so I don't know how much some of the more "upper-end" alcohols cost... but damn. $225?

[TransitJohn]

33. Well

Manhattan drinking is a lot more expensive than drinking in say, Laramie, where I live. $4500 would get me and my closest 20 friends a LOT more rocked here than there.

[pretzel4gore]

7. they must be heavily body-guarded....

it's hard to picture them being too free; the ss (who are perfectly named, under bush) surely would be thickly present, black glasses and all. As far as the girls' breeding..... they don't seem very refined (been reading jane austen)

[liberalitch]

8. Jeeze, how common..... 20% is $900....

you'd think with a Comp they'd do at least 25%

[blondeatlast]

16. I don't think the Kennebunkport Kowboy knows any better. nt

[private_ryan]

25. yp...since all you paid is the freaking tip.

n/t

[Loki]

9. I think the mistake here

is thinking they could do the math.

[molly]

13. LOL!

[MissB]

32. Exactly!! They only thought they were tipping 10%, not 1% ! (nt)

[Malva Zebrina]

10. Party girls

ack--is Jenna wearing a maternity dress? Good grief--wonder how much that atrocity cost.

[Gin]

11. Bush league..........

g

[RevCheesehead]

42. New caption for that photo: Beavis and Butthead Do America

[enough]

15. Treating the staff the same way their Daddy treats the country.

"Then, having been comped all the alcohol, they left a $48 tip."

[VOX]

26. Perfect metaphor, isn't it?

:kick:

[lil-petunia]

18. the little people aren't entitled to top tips

can't you get it through your head that there are two classes? The shrubs and the rest of us?

[LiberalFighter]

46. And they wonder why the low income have a difficult time when...

people like gw* girls tip almost nothing. AND they demand it be taxed (well at least the IRS does but who created the laws to make it so).

[quaoar]

19. Figures

They should have been thrown out on their pampered asses. They obviously have no idea what it is like to depend on tips to pay your bills. I guess that's because they have full-time jobs guzzling vodka.

Let's do some math, shall we:

With 25 guests plus the two of them, drinking $4,500 worth of free liquor, that comes to an average of $167 each. If you assume they were drinking good stuff and were charged $10 per 1 ounce drink, and assume that each person drank the same amount, they each had the equivalent of 16 drinks. They must have been shitfaced.

[Yogi]

20. What did you expect. The apple don't fall far from the tree.

n/t

[polmaven]

21. OK, question, please...

This may sound like a really lame question, but I am not what you might call a party animal.

Could someone please explain the term "having been comped all the alcohol"?

[wndycty]

22. They drank for free. . .its was complimentary on the house

:kick:

[rullery]

23. Yes, the booze was free,

and that is why a $48 tip is all the more atrocious! What pampered brats these girls are. They said at the convention that now that they have graduated from college they are "looking for something to do". I have a suggestion: join the army, and then volunteer for duty in Iraq! They might grow up if they did that.

Alcoholism is often genetic, and they could be like their Daddy that way. Also they are both smokers, which often goes along with other drugs. I don't see much of a future for these two.

[Bucky]

36. No future for them? Are you kidding?

Of course they got bright futures. Five years from now Barbara will be getting into Harvard Bidness School, just like her Dear Ol'. Jenna will be starting her well financed midday talk show, with Hannity and Colmes and Scarborough calling her the "next Oprah." Ten years from now they'll both be on VH-1's "The Surreal World" fighting off Kid Rock in the hot tub. After their celebrated come back, Barbara will run for president and win 6-3. And then we'll teach them Frogs a thing or two.

[RevCheesehead]

41. AA comes to mind

as something for them to do

[polmaven]

39. Oh!

Comped....Complimentary!

Now it makes sense.....Can you tell I am NOT a big party person?

Thanks, wndycty.

on edit: As I am thinking about it, FREE BOOZE??? $4500 worth of free booze? For 20 guests?

Are the Bushes so strapped for cash they can't afford $4500 so the club had to GIVE it to them?

The Boobsey..er..Bobbsey..er Bush twins' saga is really so much more compelling than Roger Clinton, but how many of the news 24/7 stations have talked about this story? Damn that librul media!

[hadrons]

24. Repuke tipping habits already reported on

DELEGATES KEEPING FISTS TIGHT (the rich follow a no tipping policy)

By GERSH KUNTZMAN
September 1, 2004 -- Hey, delegates, open your wallets!
That's the unvarnished advice from tip-starved concierges in hotels where GOP delegates and their families are staying.

They say Republicans are the certainly the party of fiscal restraint — at least with their own money.

"I wouldn't call them bad tippers — I'd call them non-tippers!" said Thomas Potesak, a concierge at the Sheraton Manhattan, where the Alaska, Iowa, South Dakota and Virgin Islands delegates are bunking.

www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/27882.htm

[Booster]

37. I used to go to Las Vegas with a couple of Repug

friends of mine (underlined used to go) and almost always one of them would win a sizeable jackpot on the slots. They never tipped anybody and when I would win and tip they would be all over me saying "all they did was bring you the money". I tried to get across to them that the tip for for the many other times that they brought you money so you didn't have to get off your butt and leave your machine. They never, ever got it.

[SOS]

45. A doorman at the Hilton

told my wife that the Repubs were the cheapest people he's ever dealt with.
Worst week he's had in all his years at the Hilton.
The delegates didn't tip him anything.
They did say "God Bless You" alot though.

[Neecy]

27. ugh

If the Kerry girls had been sucking down bottles and bottles of vodka during the DNC, this is ALL the media would have reported on.

Hell, even Teresa's 'shove it' comment received massive publicity before our convention, while Bush* admitting the war on terror couldn't be won at the beginning of theirs (and then flip-flopped the next day) made nary a ripple.

The double standard is really astonishing.

[Ilsa]

31. Maybe we need to make our political leanings clear when we

tip well: "Your hefty tip is from a Democratic!"

[Bucky]

34. WOW!! That's the best suggestion I've heard in a long time

I'm gonna do that!

[eleny]

35. $1000.00 minimum tip if they had any sense of decency

What a slap in the face to hard working wait staff.

[jackstraw45]

38. Those Harlem kids are really missing out....

...on being taught what a cheap, drunk is like....

[RevCheesehead]

40. Trickle-down economics are back, I guess.

Grandpa called it "VooDoo"
and Shrub is the anti-41 Bush

No wonder they're confused. So am I.

[skygazer]

43. Why are they getting comped booze?

I've never understood the logic of giving away free food and drink to the people who can most afford it. And certainly not $4500 worth, especially when it's all booze! How dumb is that?

[stevielizard]

44. there is NO WAY

that I would serve a bunch of people like that without putting on an 18% gratuity- which is fairly common for parties of 6 or more- as a restaurant manager I would even call them up the next day and tell them this- ESPECIALLY if I was dumb enough to comp their $4500 tab-

I don't think I'd let Jesus, Trane, and Mother Teresa drink that much and give them a FULL comp anyway- charge them for one double shot of Tanqueray so someone would have to bust out with a credit card.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

47. We expect them not to tip -

But as the adored children of born-again Christians - is drinking and smoking even allowed? Not sure. Many, many, OK MANY, years ago I went to an evangelical church and I know I was told many times I was headed to hell on a bobsled if I - drank, smoked, danced, wore make-up, had sex, lied, said a cuss word, disobeyed the parental units, broke any laws, slacked on homework, didn't pray every night, learn at least one bible verse a day, tithe a full 10% (allowance was a quarter), never gossip (have you ever heard the gossip at one of those Sunday dinner on the grounds picnics? Lucifer would blush), or crossed the street without looking in both directions. I made that last one up but it does seem they went out of their way to include anything resembling human behavior. According to these guys all of this was etched in stone tablets brought down from the mount by Moses - the bible just addressed the abridged version of the commandments.

Quit going when I was about 16. Hypocrisy is one of the first things that start blipping on a child's radar screen. Can spot it a mile away.

Common practice in this sweet little country "holy house of God" was for the preacher and deacons to catch a smoke out on the front steps of the church between Sunday School and the hellfire and brimstone preachin' to rail against the aforementioned sins. Common knowledge that at least two of the leaders of the church were alcoholics (hung over EVERY Sunday - slept through the sermon - lived in a dry country - you really had to go out of your way to be an alcoholic in that place and time!)and the youth director had to stand in the back of the church for three Sundays in a row - he had gotten his ass full of buckshot diving out his neighbor's bedroom window - the neighbor's wife went out right behind him - both nude. (Rumor had it she was saved from the indignity of a dimpled butt. She sat up in the front row with her husband. Sure there is a moral in there somewhere.)

This isn't an anti-church message - it's an anti THAT church message. But over the years I have seen many cases where some of the so called "born-agains" are darkening the church doors on Sunday morning but will stab you in the back Monday thru Saturday and call it just business (a la Bush). They apparently think it is okay to be mean-spirited and money grubbing if you stand up and act the pious and holy "born-again" a couple of hours each week.

Long story, not so short - Jenna and Barbara need to stay home and read the bible with their devout parents and not be out breaking all those pesky commandments. Whatever were they taught at home?O8)

[tblue37]

48. Not to mention pesky laws.

Let's compare presidential daughters: How often were Chelsea Clinton and Amy Carter arrested? Caroline Kennedy? How often did we see pictures or hear reports of these Dem daughters getting drunk, smoking, or doing the sort of "Girls Gone Wild" routine the twins seem to practice pretty much all the time.

And while we are at it, how often has John Kerry been arrested?

It seems we have a pretty clear picture of which party's candidates (and their families) practice real family values.

And, of course, we have no record of any Democratic First Ladies killing their ex-boyfriends. An accident, sure--but an accident caused by, um, breaking the law.

Can you imagine the Republican (and media) outrage if Amy, Chelsea, or Caroline behaved the way the Bush daughters do? Can you imagine if Hillary or Theresa had killed an ex-boyfriend the way Laura did?

[Democrat 4 Ever]

49. Just more examples of a cushy live with no expectations

from themselves or their family. Compare all of the people you mentioned, Caroline Kennedy, the Johnson and the Nixon girls, Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton, the Kerry daughters and then you have...

Jenna and Barbara who live to party - just like Daddy - and then stiff someone else with the bill.

[Bluebear]

51. They also ignored smoking laws, smoking away on the dance floor

In the wee hours yesterday morning, reporters were on the hunt for the real rock stars of the Republican convention -- those irresistible Bush twins -- and found them hanging out with a posse of pals in the DJ booth at Avalon, a 1846 Episcopalian cathedral-turned- dance club.......

Jenna Bush, in a "lacy white shirt," drank Miller Genuine Draft and, in evident violation of New York's prohibitive smoking rules, "lit up and shared cigarettes with friends as she danced." Meanwhile, sister Barbara, wearing a "black silk dress and pearl necklace," clapped along to the tunes.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58117-20...

[tblue37]

55. Now, exactly what sort of "cigarette"

do friends pass around among themselves at a party?

[Snotcicles]

52. Looks like

they have there fathers math skillss

[Piperay]

54. Just following the repuke plan

of "you'll get nothing and like it", guess that applies to tips and well as everything else. :puke: