Digby: The Village Social Tabbies Hiss And Yowl

Mrs Tim Russert has a new article in Vanity Fair this month about the Village hostesses. Apparently they are very upset. Nobody seems to have good dinner parties any more.

It all started with Carter who refused to serve drinks. Luckily, Reagan came in and brought back the glittering social life these people know they deserve. But it wasn't to last:

Lea Berman: I remember at the end of the Reagan years we got Democrats in Congress, and it really got ugly at dinner parties. We were just under siege the whole dinner. I told my husband, “I am not going to go through that again.” People of different parties weren’t really friends.

The Bush Sr administration was pretty good because they entertained a lot of foreign leaders and those were simply wuuunderful parties.