CBS:
New signs are posted around the White House indicating a new strict enforcement of the dress code, the Washington Post reported Thursday. The code applies to all visitors and staff members, including tourists.
Some tourists are finding the strict clothing restrictions at the White House un-American.
The forbidden items include jeans, sneakers, mini-skirts, t-shirts, tank tops and absolutely no flip flops.
Just unbelievable. Have you ever been in DC in the summer? The heat's brutal, and the humidity's worse. So what do they want me to do? Put on a suit and tie, and take an air-conditioned cab so I can swelter on line for a couple of hours? It's a portrait of assholes being held accountable: They're taking out their rage and frustration on the rest of us, in an all-too-believably petty way.
And what the Fuck
is wrong with flip-flops? Are they some kind of weird winger fetish object? What do they want? Wingtips and high heels? [Down, Rudy!] What's wrong with these people?
The motivation for the clothing crack-down comes from the Bush Administration who think some of those who work there and those who visit just don't dress appropriately.
Boo hoo. I'm playing the world's smallest violin. Who gave them the right to impose the same dress code on citizens they want to impose on staff?
Of course, what they really want is Deference. And I understand, I do, what appropriate dress really consists of, at least for non-Republicans:
I just don't think I should be forced to wear it...
NOTE Inspired by Xan, I went looking for pictures of The Holy Family the Bush twins, and, yes, it looks like we won't be seeing Babs and Jenna around much at 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, any more. Nice little shot of belly Jenna's giving us there, though. Or Babs. Whichever.
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Remember Nixon's Swiss Guards?
Well, okay, not actual Swiss Guards, but some uniforms not unlike theirs which he proposed to have White House tourist-guiding staff wear?
For which he was promptly and deservedly, albeit insufficiently, mocked and the plan was promptly discarded. But as with so many other things Nixonian, damn if it isn't popping up here again.
Because you know what this "proper attire" sounds like? The rules for tourists to be allowed in the Vatican (the home of the real Swiss Guards, thus the connection).
Especially the emphasis on no-skin-showing (for females) and the notion that respect, aka deference, must-be-shown-because-you-are-entering-a-Holy-Place.
Tell tourists in DC in summer that you can't wear a t-shirt, even one that doesn't say IMPEACH or FUCK BUSH, and jeans? And I don't see how you can ban mini-skirts and not short shorts, eh?
Let the mockery commence promptly, and the derisive laughter ring out across the land. 'Cuz the next step after this is a requirement for beanies and headscarves, to show that the peasants acknowledge their shamefulness before being allowed in the presence of the Holy of Holies.
Fuck
this shit. We paid, and pay every day, for this goddam house, Bush you asshole. We employ your sorry ass. We're the fucking landlords, and we'll come in any time we goddam well feel like it, just to keep an eye on how you're taking care of the place. Got that? Good.
Now remember the first of the month is coming up soon and we want the rent on time for once, got it punk?
this reminds me of 'doonesbury' during the nixon years
when he drew the brick wall around the WH. 'wear the uniform or don't get in!'
that never lasts.
i hate to recycle a rather dog-eared cliche, but...
talibanesque
I'm more surprised..
..that they are letting tourists into the White House at all.
As with all else, the rules don't apply to him....
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