President Bush is down to his final 100 days in office as of Sunday. Don't expect a quiet fade into the Texas night. The bleakest economic downturn in decades has changed the dynamic drastically, keeping Bush and his financial team in activist mode to the end. While the powerful heads of the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve keep making radical moves, no one elected them. Bush is the one charged with reassuring the nation that an abysmal economic period will give way to better days, even if he is long gone from Washington by the time that happens. ... "It looks like I'm going to have a lot of work to do between today and when the new president takes office," Bush said this past week. ... "There will be a desire to work every day on this bailout, because they will want to have everything set before the next guy comes in," said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform. A conservative friend of the administration but a critic of the taxpayer-funded $700 billion plan, Norquist said: "If you chose to give the treasury secretary billions of dollars to play with, why would you want to hand it over to the next guy?"
While the powerful heads of the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve keep making radical moves, no one elected them. Bush is the one charged with reassuring the nation that an abysmal economic period will give way to better days, even if he is long gone from Washington by the time that happens. ...
"It looks like I'm going to have a lot of work to do between today and when the new president takes office," Bush said this past week. ...
"There will be a desire to work every day on this bailout, because they will want to have everything set before the next guy comes in," said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform. A conservative friend of the administration but a critic of the taxpayer-funded $700 billion plan, Norquist said: "If you chose to give the treasury secretary billions of dollars to play with, why would you want to hand it over to the next guy?"
"It looks like I'm going to have a lot of work to do between today and when the new president takes office," Bush said ...
Oh flying horse farts
Stock up on beans and rice.
We're doomed, I tell you! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMEEED!
Which is just fine with everyone, except the legendary 30% who still believe he was an outstanding success.
Clearly, what we are going through is the results of the Clenis and the Congress.
[Apologies if I don't have the "President doesn't have that much power" meme that is being inculcated through the winger press and radio. Did the best I could.] Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.
Frank Delaney ~ Ireland
But wingers really do seem to believe this. Poor George just didn't have the power - a victim of circumstances foisted on him by evil Demonazis.
Mad world.
