You know, when you give a man more money in his pocket _ in this case, a woman _ more money in her pocket to expand a business, they build new buildings. And when somebody builds a new building, somebody has got to come and build the building.And when the building expanded, it prevented (sic) additional opportunities for people to work. Tax cuts matter. I'm going to spend some time talking about it.
My job is a decision-making job. And as a result, I make a lot of decisions. I delegate to good people. I always tell Condi Rice, `I want to remind you, Madam Secretary, who has the Ph.D. and who was the C student. And I want to remind you who the adviser is and who the president is.'
I got a lot of Ph.D.-types and smart people around me who come into the Oval Office and say, `Mr. President, here's what's on my mind.' And I listen carefully to their advice. But having gathered the device (sic), I decide, you know, I say, `This is what we're going to do.' And it's `Yes, sir, Mr. President.' And then we get after it, implement policy.
I'm not quite through. And it's a long answer, I'm sorry. It's called filibustering.I think that was your question, wasn't it? The answer was so long I lost track.
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I have had a lot of trouble thinking about this president as an absolute idiot. But every time he gets caught in th Q & A, he all but convinces me.
Paul Krugman. in an article linked at SwiftSpeech gives Mark Crispin Miller the credit for once making a striking observation:
Of all of the famous Bush malapropisms most have involved occasions when Mr. Bush was trying to sound caring and compassionate.
By contrast, Mr. Bush is articulate and even grammatical when he talks about punishing people; that’s when he’s speaking from the heart.
What’s happening, presumably, is that modern movement conservatism attracts a certain personality type. If you identify with the downtrodden, even a little, you don’t belong. If you think ridicule is an appropriate response to other peoples’ woes, you fit right in.
So, mystery solved: in other words, I finally get it. Krugman is telling me, 'it's the context, stupid'.
Thanks for writing this.
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