‘Washington Saloon’ Archives
WASHINGTON/PARIS: Would Obama divorce Michelle if she posed pantless like Carla Bruni Sarkozy?
First lady of France Carla Bruni Sarkozy seems to be a major hottie with a penchant for posing nude or scantily attired. According to the New York Post, an auction is expected to occur this week at Phillips de Pury in London to auction off an in-your-face photograph of the French first lady in which she is bending over and not wearing pants, [...]
WASHINGTON: Desiree Rogers and Barack Obama get a velvet divorce
Velvet divorces are very fashionable right now. Just this week, J.Lo and Sony got one. Now, word on the street is that Washington insider and White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers and President Obama have divorced. Ms. Rogers will step down from her post next month and will be replaced by a Ms. Julianna Smoot. The reason for the divorce has [...]
QUESTION: How does George Stephanopoulos divorce-proof his marriage to Alexandra Wentworth?
Easy. He buys her a sexy beach house (with a powder room) in New York's tony East Hampton neighborhood. According to WSJ's Sara Lin: George Stephanopoulos, co-host of ABC's "Good Morning America" show and a former adviser to President Bill Clinton, has bought a home in East Hampton, N.Y., for $3.5 million, about 7% less than its asking [...]
WASHINGTON: Would tax reform, including a larger tax deduction for children of married parents stem the divorce rate in America?
An article I was reading from American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research ("AEI") suggested that tax reform policies that are "pro family" (such as a larger dependent deduction) might just be what the GOP needs to promise voters in order to take the White House back from Barack Obama. Might it also be what the country needs to further [...]
NORTH CAROLINA: What does “alienation of affection” mean Ms. Elizabeth Edwards?
WHAT IS ALIENATION OF AFFECTION? Elizabeth Edwards, former (almost) wife of former presidential candidate John Edwards has threatened to sue former campaign aid Andrew Young for "alienation of affection." What that means is that she is blaming Andrew for the breakdown/implosion of her marriage to the former senator and former presidential [...]
CHICAGO: Divorce, steroids, blamed for “erratic” behavior of lieutenant gov. Scott Lee Cohen
Should Scot Lee Cohen be forced to abdicate the Democrat lieutenant gubernatorial primary win after spending more than $2 million on his campaign? The much maligned lieutenant gov is feeling the pressure from fellow democrats and from newly elected gubernatorial candidate Patrick J. Quinn. Seems Mr. Cohen has a bit of a past that includes divorce, [...]
What role will a sex tape play in the Edwards’ divorce?
I still can't believe he made a sex tape while running for president and while his wife had cancer. He made a sex tape with his mistress who was pregnant while he was running for president? That's incredible?! That's incomprehensible! What role will it play in the divorce? Gawd, who the heck knows? I'm still trying to analyze the existence of [...]
Okay, are you now telling me that John Edwards made a sex tape with Rielle Hunter? Nah ah.
The reason I ask this question is that I think I distinctly heard this afternoon that Rielle Hunter has filed and won a restraining order against former Edwards aid, Andrew Young and that Young has admitted he has a tape of a naked pregnant Rielle and, I guess, a man, who, I guess was Edwards? But I'm hallucinating, right? I mean, besides the [...]
NORTH CAROLINA: John and Elizabeth Edwards legally separate. Oh my.
After the stunning admission that he not only cheated on his wife while she was suffering with cancer and fathered a daughter with his paramour and then asked a campaign aide to take the rap, ABC News just reported that former presidential candidate John Edwards and his wife Elizabeth are separating. He's a PR smarty that one. The former [...]
CONNECTICUT: Former Bush aide John Michael Farren charged with trying to kill wife Mary after she served him with divorce papers
The intersection of domestic violence and divorce has yet another fatality (or almost fatality). Charges have been levelled against a former Bush aid, one Mr.John Michael Farren for trying to strangle his wife Mary after she asked for divorce. Mr. Farren, according to associated press reports, was deputy White House counsel during President [...]
NORTH CAROLINA: Latest John Edwards gossip (divorce, Rielle, child support, etc)
Indeed, he did have sexual relations with that woman, Rielle Hunter, and indeed he is the biological father of Rielle's little cutey puttutey, Francis Quinn. Oh my word. Now we are looking at child support for how long, Johnny Appleseed? Gawd. I would have to research North Carolina law on this and I have flu. I just can't look it up right now. [...]
D.C.: Post-divorce will you, like Peter Orszag and his ex-spouse need a conflict manager to navigate child rearing?
Peter Orszag and his ex wife Cameron Kennedy have been in the news lately on account of his engagement to ABC News' Brianna Golodrya and his break up with his new baby mama Claire Milonas, a Harvard MBA and venture capitalist with a Greek shipping magnate for a father. All of a sudden, this London School of Economics, and Ivy League graduate [...]
WASHINGTON: Is White House budget director Peter Orszag a divorce waiting to happen for ABC’s Brianna Golodryga?
He's a cute-looking geek on the surface, but is Peter Orszag a good risk for beauty Brianna Golodryga? The divorced father of two may be more than Ms. Golodryga can handle if published reports are true. Orszag and Golodryga announced their engagement a few weeks back and since then, Peter got swamped down in all this bad press on account of [...]
TEXAS: Karl and Darby Rove divorce after a strainful and stressful marriage
Politico is reporting that former senior advisor to President Bush, Karl Rove and his wife Darby Rove have been granted a quiet divorce in Texas. The pair were married 24 years. Family spokeswoman Dana Perino broke the news to the Press. Says a "Family Friend": After 24 years of marriage, many of which were spent under incredible stress and [...]
WASHINGTON: 2-time divorced senate finance committee chairman Max Baucus with girlfriend trouble
He divorced just last April from his wife of 25 years, but he's already shacking up with his former staffer Melodee Hanes in Washington. That is reportedly why Melodee voluntarily withdrew her name from consideration for the post of U.S. attorney for Montana for which Baucus had nominated her along with a couple other people. President Obama [...]
WASHINGTON: Michaele and Tareq Salahi, Obama’s party crashers, to divorce?
Michaele and Tareq Salahi are clearly nuts. They perpetrated the biggest Thanksgiving hoax of 2009 by crashing President and Michelle Obama's state dinner on Tuesday night, which was in honor of Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh. This stunt was supposedly to prove to Bravo producers that the Salahis were big shots and had to goods to be [...]
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