Woolcott on Bush’s Women

Vanity Fair’s James Wolcott gives the women closest to President Bush a very rough going-over in the latest issue – portraying mom Barbara Bush as a nasty piece of work, wife Laura as timid and ineffectual, former Bush aide Karen Hughes as a wacko and a liar and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice as a weirdly worshipful “professional wife.” But, surprisingly, Wolcott concludes with a backhanded compliment for daughters Jenna and Barbara: “I’ve come to have a grudging regard for the Bush twins. Jenna and Barbara may be spoiled brats – tarty party girls – but at least they’re not perpetuating false pretenses, being used as attractive props and tweeting noises they don’t believe.”

I agree with this, actually. Those two girls may be spoiled little Paris Hilton wannabes but you have to give them credit for not buying into the phony sanctimony of their religious-right pander patsy of a father. They told him to go to hell. I’m not sure they’re Republicans.

Via the great Catch.com