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Originally posted by The Larry Davis Experience
Wow, do you really think so? That is interesting (not sarcastic). I actually logged on to post that although I'm sure crackpots around the greater Berkeley area were as pissed as I was during some of the things he said, Bush's supporters would find much to like during that speech. I thought he was shooting for a message to the base that he was still the responsible man of action he's always been, but that he doesn't get caught up in the parsing of words that the media for some reason wants to force him engage in.
In other words, I thought it was a politically savvy move at a rough time in his presidency/campaign. But maybe it's rougher than I thought. Not that you're a typical GWB base supporter, but I would have thought a Hannibal Smith-type like yourself would have liked that vibe.
I missed the good tax cut justification, but I was probably predisposed not to hear that one. For general funniness I enjoyed his "It's OK to beat on me, that's politics, but I pity the fool that denigrates the National Guard" riff. For general annoyingness my favorite was this one:
...when the actual annual growth in discretionary outlays was for the last two years was 13% and 12%, both of which were greater than the same percentage for any single Clinton year.
(Ty I would be forever grateful if you could help a technically illiterate brother out and put this table into this post but if not you can click here to see a graph the Heritage foundation put together on this:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Bud...m&PageID=53575)
Although it's technically true they're declining I'm not sure that is really relevant. And although Russert cites the Heritage Foundation as critical of the admin on this one I guess I'm more confident that their numerical anlysis than in GWB's. I would welcome someone showing me where Bush's statement was derived from, if not these numbers.
In other news, the Simpsons and Curb Your Enthusiasm were awesome tonight. That is all.
[eta Thanks, Ty.]
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As your post indicates, its not the "man of action" part that doesn't appeal to me. It was the mispronounced words, the hemming and hawing, the general tone of his remarks, the Deniro type-squinting, and most importantly, the total BS on the budget. Its time to demand that cities like Chicago put public housing residents to work sweeping streets and picking up garbage, but noooo, they just keep announcing that the money is still coming from the feds. Its no way to treat your political enemies.
Speaking of Chicago, Daley fired the son of his first cousin today in the trucking scandal. There is speculation in Chicago that the Feds are going to go nuts on corruption before the election, though I'm not convinced.
In other news, Boston appointed a chick as commissioner, and she seems quite likable from a distance. I honestly think the argument could be made that she is the best person for the job, and everybody in the city administration should be breathing a sigh of relief that the acting commissioner is out after last week's fiasclo. Menino should not have even bothered trying to justify what happened, it was that idiotic, and the dead guy's mom is tearing him a new orifice in the press because of it. How fucking hard is it to just say "we screwed up with our staffing and our planning, but we didn't kill your kid... a criminal did"?
In other Boston News, can somebody please tell Ben Affleck that he sucks?
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