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Quote of the Day - 01.12.09
QUOTE OF THE DAY....From Edward Lazear, chairman of George Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, on the administration's economic track record:
"It does look like a great eight years, aside from the last quarter, unfortunately."
Actually, he's wrong: it wasn't a great eight years, regardless of whether or not you count the final quarter. But this was still too good a quote not to memorialize.
Damn, genome beat me in the race to the ol' chestnut. But ya know, Lazear would begin to have just the slightest point if anything of a positive concrete ecomonic consequence had happened before the fall, like expanded wages, better infrastructure spending, etc.
Reminded me of GWB's presser this AM ? a very few regrets, mostly satisfied. Lordy!
Gag me with a spoon. I just got done watching some of Bush's tap-dance of a final press conference.
If you ever wondered what a dry-drunk looks like, there he was.
If you ever wondered what I mean by the phrase "picking raisins from a turd" there he was. I'd a turned it off but my wife wanted to watch it.
Ugh.
yeah, real median household wages declining while public and private debt went way up to sustain modest GDP growth. Nobody could have foreseen that that was unsustainable.
Reminds me of the guy who fell off a thousand-foot cliff. The first 999 feet went quite well . . .
I hate this man. I realize that my "feeling" is a waste of time for me, but for so many tens of thousands of people, his presidency has been a disaster.
Compassionate conservative. What the hell is that??
pokeybob,
Contempt is probably a better feeling to have.
One of the raisin's Bush plucked from the turd of his term was that every day, in some way, he made sure his staff had 'fun.' He said that - with something like pride - "Every day we had fun."
The best he could dredge up is that every day he managed to crack wise like a schlub at a party with a lampshade on his head.
Like I said - a dry drunk in every way.
rea beat me to it! Curses!
I did hear some of his press conference this morning, where he said "well, we inherited a recession, and we're going out on a recession."
Yup. It's exactly like 2000, isn't it?
Lazear is actually correct if you happen to be a billionaire, which were the only creatures that truly qualified as human beings under the Bush Administration.
"Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
pokeybob wrote: "Compassionate conservative. What the hell is that??"
Bill Clinton.
Damn, genome beat me in the race to the ol' chestnut. But ya know, Lazear would begin to have just the slightest point if anything of a positive concrete ecomonic consequence had happened before the fall, like expanded wages, better infrastructure spending, etc.
Reminded me of GWB's presser this AM a very few regrets, mostly satisfied. Lordy!
Contempt:
attitude of utter disgust or hatred.
Works for me.
Molly, oh Molly, rest your soul Molly Ivans, but I wish you were here for the final "words"
Trip: Your "picking raisens out of a turd" is nasty but so perfect & Pokey Bob's contempt works for me!!
Conservatives have two completely different stories about the last eight years.
The first is that things were going splendidly well until
they unaccountably fell apart at the very end.
The second is that the economy was going to hell in a handbasket ever since Clinton beefed up the Community Reinvestment Act and congress failed, back in 1993, to rein in Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac.
For the first 7 years they pushed the first story, then when things went bad they suddenly switched to the second.
Yes, and the Titanic's maiden voyage was going really well until that iceberg.