It's time to celebrate the end of a bad presidency - and what better way to thumb your nose at the world's most hated dry drunk than to invent cocktail recipes?
Turns out this is nothing new - this tasty variation of the Negroni was created to celebrate the resignation of Richard Nixon:
Dirty Dick's Downfall
* 1/2 oz. Campari
* 2 oz. Gin
* 1/2 oz. Vermouth, dry
* 1 twist Lemon
Stir ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with a twist of lemon.
Here's one that my wife and I came up for George W:
George's Relapse
* 4 oz. Jack Daniels' Tennessee Whiskey
* 1/4 tsp powder cocaine (substitute powdered sugar if you aren't well connected in the GOP)
* 1 frosty glass Lone Star Beer
Coat rim of large shot glass in cocaine (or sugar). Fill shot glass with whiskey, and drop into beer. Drink in one gulp.
And here's another one:
Mission Accomplished
(a.k.a. Bloody George)
* 2 oz. Smirnoff Lime Vodka
* 2 oz. Gin
* 1/2 cup tomato juice
* 2 teaspoons fresh lime juice
* Worcestershire sauce to taste
* Horseradish to taste
* Tabasco to taste
* Minitaure American flag
Combine the liquor, the tomato juice, the lime juice, the Worcestershire sauce, the Tabasco, the horseradish, 1 cup ice cubes, and salt and pepper to taste, shake the mixture well, and strain it into a tall glass filled with ice cubes. Garnish with the American flag.
And one for "Shotgun" Dick Cheney, who didn't "drink at all on the day of the shooting until after the accident occurred, when the vice president fixed himself a cocktail back at the house." I'm guessing he's a Bourbon man.
Shotgun Dick
(a.k.a. Go F**k Yourself)
* 3 oz. Bulleit Bourbon
* 1/2 oz. dry vermouth
* Many dashes bitters
* 1 tsp BB-sized silver confectioners balls (a.k.a. non-pareils, a.k.a dragees)
Stir bourbon, vermouth, and bitters with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Attempt to "pepper" the glass with the silver balls by flicking the teaspoon from 5 feet away.
You get the idea. Want to help us out with more recipies?