Posted on 07/30/2002 10:06:51 AM PDT by gubamyster
Tuesday July 30, 2002; 11:09 a.m. EDT
First twins Barbara and Jenna Bush apparently learned little from their scrape last year with Texas lawmen, who were called by the Bush-hating manager at an Austin Tex Mex restaurant who spotted the underage duo ordering Margaritas with fake ID.
They've been luckier this summer but not a whole lot more careful, according to a source at one Arlington, Va., pub not far from the White House.
The bar, Iota's, was carding very thoroughly one recent Thursday night, so the presidential twins' "fake IDs must be sweet," the source tells the magazine Washingtonian Online.
"When a bartender recognized the twins, he took their beers away," the e-zine reports. "But the twins still stuck around."
The Bush girls, who turn legal later this year, reportedly visited the bar with "a pack of pals" to see a folk band called Brown Couch, whose guitarist attends Yale with Barbara.
You can bash someone as far away as the cook or even the mailman and you'll still qualify.
I agree entirely. Nevertheless, it is the law and when you are the daughter of the President it is both selfish and immature to continue to break the law.
Was probably a resturant or coffee bar. Folk bands don't play in hard core bars or night clubs. Most of the people there were probably under 21.
Oh yeah, grounding kids a few months before their 21st birthday, that works real well. /sarcasm.
Jenna will have to stick to overseas bars until her birthday. In May 2001, she was caught using a fake ID to buy a drink. After paying a $100 fine and taking alcohol-awareness classes, she was nabbed again. Her second offense cost her $500, and the Bush twin's license was suspended.
A White House spokeswoman told us: "Both of the Bush girls are private citizens, and we will have no comment."
This is getting tedious. The first time it was funny; "girls will be girls" and all of that. The second time it was an unconfirmed story.
Now, the girls should "get it". They're a security risk. I mean, if they want to hear the band play, daddy can just invite the band to the White House. Along with their 500 closest friends.
I'd hate to see anything happen to the twins or other patrons in those bars they frequent.
Known plenty of Ivy Leaguers who were brilliant in their field yet completely devoid of common sense. (I've known some others who weren't particularly bright at all that were admitted for other reasons.)
Which ones would that be? There are only hundreds, maybe thousands of them in the DC metro area.
In the mid-60s in Connecticut, drinking age was 21. The bars in New Haven were pretty careful, but college parties tended to be pretty boozy with no attempts to stop the drinking. Those that wanted the party scene in bars usually went to New York state, where the drinking age was 18.
These are not things I learned from reading a book.
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