Webb | The Week

last updated 8 January 2015

Talk about changing the tone in Washington, said Eleanor Clift in Newsweek. At a White House reception last week, newly elected Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) horrified D.C.'s "etiquette police" by skipping the reception line so he wouldn't have to make small talk with George W. Bush, whose policies he deeply opposes. Later, Bush approached Webb, whose son is a Marine in Iraq, and asked, "How's your boy?" Webb shot back, "I'd like to get them out of Iraq, Mr. President." This lack of deference unleashed the "bullying frat boy" always lurking just beneath Bush's false bonhomie. "That's not what I asked you," snarled Bush. "How's your boy?" To which Webb