automobile that just recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. It's a
collector's item of high order.
I however am named after the 1948 Triple Crown winner, Citation from
Calumet Farms.
[not to be confused with the small jet]
--- In Dems2008@yahoogroups.com, Willow Oak <willow_oak@...> wrote:
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> At times I do not like you, but broken car at times you are right.
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> From: Citation citation502@...
> To: citation 502 citation502@...
> Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 3:16:16 PM
> Subject: [Dems2008] Bush/Herbert Hoover: At least he could rehearse
his speech
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>
> New York Times
> March 15, 2008
> Op-Ed Columnist
> George Speaks, Badly
> By GAIL COLLINS
> Watching George W. Bush address the New York financial community
Friday brought back many memories. Unfortunately, they were about his
speech right after Hurricane Katrina, the one when he said: "America
will be a stronger place for it."
> "You've helped make our country really in many ways the
economic envy of the world," he told the Economic Club of New York.
> You could almost see the thought-bubble forming over the audience: Not
this week, kiddo.
> The president squinched his face and bit his lip and seemed too antsy
to stand still. As he searched for the name of King Abdullah of Saudi
Arabia ("the king, uh, the king of Saudi") and made guy-fun of
one of the questioners ("Who picked Gigot?"), you had to wonder
what the international financial community makes of a country whose
president could show up to talk economics in the middle of a liquidity
crisis and kind of flop around the stage as if he was emcee at the Iowa
Republican Pig Roast.
> We're really past expecting anything much, but in times of crisis
you would like to at least believe your leader has the capacity to
pretend he's in control. Suddenly, I recalled a day long ago when my
husband worked for a struggling paper full of worried employees and the
publisher walked into the newsroom wearing a gorilla suit.
> The country that elected George Bush — sort of — because he
seemed like he'd be more fun to have a beer with than Al Gore or
John Kerry is really getting its comeuppance. Our credit markets are
foundering, and all we've got is a guy who looks like he's ready
to kick back and start the weekend.
> This is not the first time Bush's attempts to calm our fears
redoubled our nightmares. His first speech after 9/11 — that
two-minute job on the Air Force base — was so stilted that the
entire country felt like heading for the nearest fallout shelter. After
Katrina, of course, it took forever to pry him out of Crawford, and then
he more or less read a laundry list of Goods Being Shipped to the Flood
Zone and delivered some brief assurances that things would work out.
> O.K., so he's not good at first-day response. Or second. Third can
be a problem, too. But this economic crisis has been going on for
months, and all the president could come up with sounded as if it had
been composed for a Rotary Club and then delivered by a guy who had
never read it before. "One thing is certain that Congress will do is
waste some of your money," he said. "So I've challenged
members of Congress to cut the number of cost of earmarks in half."
> Besides being incoherent, this is a perfect sign of an utterly phony
speech. Earmarks are one of those easy-to-attack Congressional
weaknesses, and in a perfect world, they would not exist. But they cost
approximately two cents in the grand budgetary scheme of things. Saying
you're going to fix the economy or balance the budget by cutting out
earmarks is like saying you're going to end global warming by
banning bathroom nightlights.
> Bush pointed out — as if the entire economic world didn't
already know — that Congress has already passed an economic
incentive package that will send tax rebate checks to more than 130
million households. "A lot of them are a little skeptical about this
`checks in the mail' stuff," he jibed. Jokejoke. Winkwink.
> Then, after a run through of "ideas I strongly reject," Bush
finally got around to announcing that he was going to "talk about
what we're for. We're obviously for sending out over $150
billion into the marketplace in the form of checks that will be reaching
the mailboxes by the second week of May.
> "We're for that," he added.
> Once the markets had that really, really clear, Bush felt free to go
on to the other things he was for, which very much resembled that
laundry list for Katrina ("400 trucks containing 5.4 million Meals
Ready to Eat — or M.R.E.'s ... 3.4 million pounds of ice
...") This time the rundown included a six-month-old F.H.A.
refinancing program, and an industry group called Hope Now that offers
advice to people with mortgage problems.
> And then, finally, the nub of the housing crisis: "Problem we have
is, a lot of folks aren't responding to over a million letters sent
out to offer them assistance and mortgage counseling," the president
of the United States told the world.
> But wait — more positive news! The secretary of Housing and Urban
Development is proposing that lenders supply an easy-to-read summary
with mortgage agreements. "You know, these mortgages can be pretty
frightening to people. I mean, there's a lot of tiny print," the
president said.
> Really, if he can't fix the economy, the least he could do is
rehearse the speech.
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