Laura Bush’s Fugly Farewell to America Has a Couple Cracks

Lisa Derrick Wednesday January 7, 2009 8:47 pm

Laura Bush designed some ugly-ass Presidential china for the hefty price tag of $550,000 dollars–paid for by a private foundation, the White House Historical Association which was created specifically for that purpose. It and two new rugs just arrived as the Bushes are getting ready to move out.

Laura’s reasons for ordering place settings for 320 of the formal gold leaf and green china–as well as the less formal 70 residential settings with a magnolia splat in the center, decorated with bugs "that we have on the White House lawn"–were a need for more place settings for formal state dinners and "breakage," which, as the First Lady explains:

of course does happen, as you all know with china and every once in a while we’ve had a really bad accident where we’ve lost more than one piece at once when a tray fell, or something like that happened.

However the White House Museum explains:

And full services suitable for state dinners exist for the B Harrison, Wilson, FD Roosevelt, Truman, L Johnson, Reagan, and Clinton sets. Replacement pieces are occasionally ordered for these, as pieces become chipped or broken.

Let’s face it, the china and the new rugs are just the soon-to-be First Lady’s way of leaving her mark. And way more dainty than putting sardines behind the electrical sockets.

Teddy Partridge | Wednesday January 7, 2009 09:57 pm 1

What a lame-ass beeyotch, who cannot dress herself.

Julia | Thursday January 8, 2009 04:20 am 2

Oh, for the love of god, the _bugs_?

K. Breathing.

So, splain me: there are seven sets of china, and at least two of them have three hundred settings, but she had to buy 320 more settings to save wear and tear on the existing china because they use the state china upstairs for lunch and private dinner parties? Except they won’t be doing that any more, now, will they, because the residence has seventy settings of brand new china. The ones with the gold leaf, so the casual china will have to be washed by hand and replaced more often. And the insects. Insects they picked because you can find them on the White House lawn, so when the family looks at their meals, they’ll see bugs under their food which could actually be there.

Boy, this family is just determined no leave no depth unplumbed in their ongoing effort to say screw you to the world. It would have been a hell of a lot cheaper to steal all the O keys from the White House keyboards, JMO.

OldHeathen1963 | Thursday January 8, 2009 08:27 am 3

Just like the Drunk that must have a Bottle of alcohol for his trip to Detox, Bush Government can’t help pissing away the peoples money!
What did you say Madam Deficit ( Bush wife )Let ‘em eat cake?