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The Pol Who Drank Too Much: Can a lush run the country?
Slate.com ^
| Jan. 11, 2006
| Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Posted on 01/12/2006 1:32:13 PM PST by PJ-Comix
After I joined the staff of the Spectator magazine 30 years ago, I was taken to the House of Commons as part of my political apprenticeship. We watched a debate from the press gallery and pottered through the lobbies of the cavernous building before repairing at around 9 p.m. to one of the dozen or more bars found in the Palace of Westminster. There we fell in with a Tory MP, the original vaudeville drunk, glassy eyes, slurred speech, teetering on his bar stool. I bought him one or two more and then I helpfully asked if I could find him a cab home. He looked at me with puzzlement. "Wha'you mean, go home? I gotta shpeak on thish amendment." And so he did.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: charleskennedy; williampitt
...from the time when William Pitt the Younger was prime minister in the 1790s while consuming three bottles of port a day.
And things haven't changed a bit for current William Pitt the Even Younger.
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posted on
01/12/2006 1:32:16 PM PST
by
PJ-Comix
To: Charles Henrickson
See my Reply #1. Apparently things haven't changed a bit in the Pitt family.
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posted on
01/12/2006 1:33:04 PM PST
by
PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix
Angelina likes 'em that way, I guess.
To: PJ-Comix
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posted on
01/12/2006 1:41:05 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: PJ-Comix
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posted on
01/12/2006 1:42:55 PM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum.)
To: PJ-Comix
Didn't we have a President, like Taft or Garfield, back in that era, that consumed many drinks before lunch?.........
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posted on
01/12/2006 1:44:53 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him)
To: Red Badger
Taft consumed just about everything, non-stop, all day. He was a 400+ pounder; and the Income Tax Amendment passed during his term.
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posted on
01/12/2006 1:54:19 PM PST
by
JohnCliftn
(In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Good Will.)
To: Red Badger
I think you are thinking of Harding.
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posted on
01/12/2006 1:55:39 PM PST
by
kjo
To: BenLurkin
Nice pic of 'The Great Spermanater."
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posted on
01/12/2006 2:00:03 PM PST
by
litehaus
To: kjo
I think you are thinking of Harding. Harding had a personal bootlegger who dropped off the booze on a regular basis in one of the bushes on the White House lawn.
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posted on
01/12/2006 2:08:13 PM PST
by
PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix
Harding had a personal bootlegger who dropped off the booze on a regular basis in one of the bushes >>
They wouldn't let him in the front door? Thash discriminashun!!
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posted on
01/12/2006 3:10:39 PM PST
by
Ole Okie
To: Ole Okie
Harding had a personal bootlegger who dropped off the booze on a regular basis in one of the bushes.Already in the 1920s, it was bushes' fault!
To: PJ-Comix
I thought this was about Ted Kennedy.
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posted on
01/12/2006 3:29:48 PM PST
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: JohnCliftn
Taft consumed just about everything, non-stop, all day. He was a 400+ pounder; and the Income Tax Amendment passed during his term. So, he and Congress ate too much..............
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posted on
01/13/2006 5:04:41 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him)
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