The New York Times, March 16, 2008
Everyone here is flummoxed about why the president is in such a fine mood.
The dollar’s crumpling, the recession’s thundering, the Dow’s bungee-jumping and the world’s disapproving, yet George Bush has turned into Gene Kelly, tap dancing and singing in a one-man review called “The Most Happy Fella.”
“I’m coming to you as an optimistic fellow,” he told the Economic Club of New York on Friday. His manner — chortling and joshing — was in odd juxtaposition to the Fed’s bailing out the imploding Bear Stearns and his own acknowledgment that “our economy obviously is going through a tough time,” that gas prices are spiking, and that folks “are concerned about making their bills.”
He began by laughingly calling the latest news on the economic meltdown “a interesting moment” and ended by saying that “our energy policy has not been very wise” and that there was “no quick fix” on gasp-inducing gas prices.
“You know, I guess the best way to describe government policy is like a person trying to drive a car in a rough patch,” he said. “If you ever get stuck in a situation like that, you know full well it’s important not to overcorrect, because when you overcorrect you end up in the ditch.”
I didn’t read the whole article, but this is pretty easy stuff: if GW had reduced govt spending, as promised, instead of increasing it in the style of LBJ, and if he’d gotten control of our borders so illegals could not come here and suck up billions of dollars of services, we would be better off today, even with the huge expense of the war.
GW is, relatively speaking, a failure just like Bill, Jimmy, and Bush Senior.
Grimgold
Comment by grimgold — March 16, 2008 @ 10:30 am
Like der bushmeister stated, you don’t want to “overcompensate on the economy, it might end up in a ditch”! You mean it isn’t already?
If we can just keep him flitting all over the country/world doing his dance routine until we can unload him with out him pushing the “nukular” button….
Comment by kerry — March 16, 2008 @ 10:55 am