AND NOW, FOR A BIT OF LEVITY

Latest Bush Twin Bar Hopping Sighting


Jenna Bush, Goddaughter of Soul

(Sunday, June 8, 2003; Page D03, Washington Post)


It has been a good long while since we've chronicled the after-hours high jinks of President Bush's twin daughters in Washington saloons. After all, they're free, legal and 21.

But now we must report Jenna and Barbara Bush's recent late-night visit to a karaoke bar in Adams Morgan.

We hear that all the fun started around 11:30 p.m. on May 29, the same night President and Laura Bush were hosting a Yale 35th-year reunion dinner at the White House, and kept going till 2 a.m. The Bush daughters were with a posse of a dozen friends, we're told.

The highlight -- according to deejay Phil Schneider ("We're called the Peyote Cafe -- you know, like the drug," he explained helpfully) -- was when Jenna sang backup in James Brown's "Sex Machine." Dressed in a knee-length brown skirt and a white top, she belted out the chorus of "Get up! Get up! Get up!," Schneider said.

But how come she didn't sing the lead?

Schneider replied: "Her dad may have liberated the people of Iraq, but that doesn't mean I'm going to let her sing lead."

Barbara, in dark brown tight pants and a white top, joined in "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" and "Sweet Home Alabama."

"Barbara was dirty-dancing with her boyfriend, or the guy she was with by the end of the night -- they closed down the bar," Schneider said. "They were both drunk. I think Jenna was smoking. They seemed to be having a good time. The guy Jenna was with was kind of rude. He kept grabbing the mike from other people and would not return it when I wanted it back -- and then he did this awful beatbox into the mike. Everyone else was fine. If I didn't think that I would wake up in Guantanamo Bay, I would have punched him in the face!"

The 27-year-old Schneider -- who depends on gratuities to supplement his $50-a-night deejay's pay -- told us the daughters left him zero and thus miserably failed our Celebrity Tip Challenge. When we reached Noelia Rodriguez, the first lady's press secretary, she told us: "We have a longstanding policy of not commenting on the daughters."

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