‘Trophy wives in training’ -The Hill

[Rose Siding]

...
Downstairs the girls are staking out their turf at the bar, reclining on the miniature couches and talking about their congressmen and their highlights and who’s going to win in November. One junior staffer at “B-C ’04,” asked if the president is going to prevail, quips, “Hells yeah!” While they’re reluctant to acknowledge any partisan leanings, roughly 80 percent are Republican.

It would be easy to paint The Madison as a sort of NC-17 Junior League, a cool-but-not-too-cool clique of mostly Southern belles too pretty, too well bred to mingle, let alone procreate, with mere legislative directors.

Certainly, the fellows at the Capital Club, The Madison’s male equivalent, see the sisterhood as something of a future first wives club. Said one: “We’re starting a breeding program. We’re going to maintain the blue-blood line.”

It’s not just that The Madison is exclusive. So what? If everyone could join, no one would want to. Good for these ladies for wearing their haughtiness on their sleeves. In a town notorious for its dishonesty and obfuscation, The Madison is refreshingly in-your-face about who’s hot and who’s not.

“We just like to have fun,” says Melissa McKay, who organized this evening’s event, dubbed “Shaken … Not Stirred.” McKay, a recent graduate of the College of Charleston and Rep. Steve King’s (R-Iowa) communications director, adds that outsiders are hardly banned from Madison gigs.

Those in attendance included press secretaries for Reps. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) and Eric Cantor (R-Va.).

What makes The Madison a big, fat target for anyone who isn’t a member is that it looks and feels like a relic of a faraway time and place — before Betty Friedan, Roe v. Wade, the 19th Amendment...

http://www.thehill.com/living/072104_madison.aspx

[roguevalley]

1. before conscience, before dignity, before brains. What a buncha

hoes. Literally.

[benfranklin1776]

3. Aptly put and quite true.

n/t

[ixion]

14. yep...spot on...

hoes, and nothing more. They live only to find the richest provider and spend their lives leeching.

While they might be nice to look at, they actually represent the inbred blue blood under belly of the human race, and are certain to be involved in the decline and inevitable extinction of the species. :-(

[benfranklin1776]

Good God how incredibly shallow and repugnant.

"She laughs, tucking a strawberry-blond lock behind her ear. I would be
ultimate trophy wife."

"We are starting a breeding program. We are going to maintain the blue-blood line."


Suppose I were brain dead and without redeeming social value, suppose I was a Republican trophy wife in training, but I repeat myself. Here is hoping for the sake of the gene pool that the blue blood line stops here.

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[WillyBrandt]

4. TBogg on the Topic

Defining "trophy wife" down....

Okay. I found this at Wonkette who pretty much said all that needed to said about it....

Except for the obvious.

These are not potential "trophy wives". They are the semi-cute usually picked up over at the Remaindered Bar just before closing time.

This a trophy wife.

http://tbogg.blogspot.com/2004/07/defining-trophy-wife-down.html

[shrike]

11. I'm a woman and I have to agree

that is DEFINITELY a trophy wife!

[nightperson]

18. Thank you for your honesty,

but Madame I must remind people that she is no mere "trophy wife", that woman is the French National Symbol!

[nightperson]

19. By the way,

whenever I hear the Repub clowns whining about France, about looking French, etc., I think of Ms. Casta. If they want to "go there", I'm ready to contrast her with Limbaugh. I welcome the comparison. "Looks French" indeed :9 ! The "Savage Nation", the Dittoheads et al are truly out of touch with Western Civilization!

[WillyBrandt]

5. Wonkette on Topic (Hilarious!)

You may have wondered if it's possible to retch with disgust and laugh with nihilistic abandon at the same time. . . It is! We know, because we just stopped retching long enough to make this quick entry about The Hill's latest contribution to District anthropological studies, "Trophy wives in training," in which we learn about a group of blonde and might-as-well-be-blonde women who have formed a club for the express purpose of keeping other people out:

It’s not just that The Madison is exclusive. So what? If everyone could join, no one would want to. Good for these ladies for wearing their haughtiness on their sleeves. In a town notorious for its dishonesty and obfuscation, The Madison is refreshingly in-your-face about who’s hot and who’s not.

Refreshing, indeed. Refreshing like a fart in an elevator.

http://www.wonkette.com/archives/girls-just-want-to-have-trust-funds-018001.php

[benfranklin1776]

6. HEH HEH.

Good one!

[drhilarius]

7. The ironic thing is...

These girls join The Madison club to find repub power players for whom they can become trophy wives. Thirty years later, their repub legislator hubbies will be trolling the Madison club for their mistresses. It's the circle of repub "morality".

[Odd Little Man]

8. 30 years???????????????

You must be a romantic. I'd give them maybe 30 months and they'll be looking.

[drhilarius]

9. What can i say?

I'm an optimist. Welcome to DU.

[Skittles]

10. this is just f***ing sad

nt

[underpants]

12. You should see the bar at the Ritz-Carlton in Pentagon City

I stayed at the Ritz for a former employer. Nothing but trophywife-wannabes trolling. It was a good weekend.

[teryang]

13. BARF

...maybe there will be weddings later down in the bunker.

[Soopercali]

15. Best argument I've seen yet...

In favor of the estate tax. Beware the evils of inherited wealth...

[wildeyed]

16. We have a breeding program

for future repug trophy wives here in the south, so I get to observe the species in their native habitat. God, they are rude and hateful. And tiny. All size 2. Is that 'cause of inbreeding or do they starve them as children?

[shraby]

17. I wonder how much they charge?